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Letter from Cary Gratz to J. M. McFarland Regarding the Bank Panic of 1857Letter from Cary Gratz to J. M. McFarland Regarding the Bank Panic of 1857

A one-page manuscript letter dated October 15, 1857, from Cary Gratz, a merchant in St. Louis, Missouri, to J. M. McFarland in Chillicothe, Ohio. The letter discusses the effects of the Bank Panic of 1857 in St. Louis. Attached is a printed copy of the *Merchants’ Exchange Reporter and Prices Current*, St. Louis, Vol. 1, No. 37, Wednesday, October 14, 1857.