From the National Archives, RG 109, Ch.
6, Vol. 707-709; “Letters Received and Sent, Chimborazo
Hospital. 1861-64.” 3 Vols: Vol. 708, p. 165
To Dr. J. B. McCaw Surgeon in Chief at the Chimborazo
Hospital
Sir – We do hereby as the agents for and on behalf of your landlord Hiram
Olliver of Henrico County, give you notice and require you to quit and deliver
up on the first day of January next 1864, the possession of the ____ or dwelling
house with the lot of land connected thereto, which you now hold or claim to
hold rented of us as agents for the said Hiram Olliver, situated on Marshall
street in the county of Henrico, near to the city of Richmond and should you
fail or refuse to deliver up the said house & its appertenances ____ above,
at the time ____ed above, 1st of January 1864, you as the agent of
the Confederate States or Surgeon in Chief at Chimborazo Hospital will be
charged fifteen hundred dollars rent per annum, payable quarterly, dated the 30th
day of June 1863
Clopton &
Lyne agts for Hiram Olliver
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