Office of Fletcher & C^o.

Licensed by the U. S. Government

New York.     

February 23^d 1866.

 

Dear Sir,

            As we are desirous to send a good Prize in your neighborhood, and with this resolution we have been looking around for an opening in which, by presenting some discreet and reliable person with a prize of a few Hundred dollars, it would have the desired effect to increase the number of our customers. We accidently met with your address, and the idea occurred to us at once that you were just the person to aid us in our enterprize; We therefore make you a proposition which must strike you as being no less novel than it is liberal; and that you may not suppose that there is any deception in it, we inform you that the prize money does not come out of our pockets, but out of the Lottery managers, and shall not lose by sending a few Hundred dollars in Prize money, but shall gain by it in the increased am^t of business we shall expect from your neighborhood when you show the "Greenbacks", and make it generally known that they are the proceeds of a Prize drawn at our Office. We make this offer to you in strong confidence—the proposal is plain. We are to send a Certificate for a chance to draw a Prize of a few Hundred dollars—You are to show the money. The result will be that Hundreds of dollars will be sent to us for Tickets—you may be the gainer of a few Hundred dollars—we shall be gainers by our sales, and the parties who send for Tickets may be gainers by drawing Prizes; Every one that sends will, of course expect to draw a prize, not knowing the offer we made privately to you, which is as follows: Send us $10 to pay the managers and we will send you securely sealed a Certificate of Package of sixteenths Tickets in the enclosed scheme, and to set at rest any doubt you may have of our sincerity we hereby bind ourselves to send to you a second Certificate in one of our Brilliant Extra Lotteries for nothing, if the first we send does not draw you, clear of all expense Fifteen hundred. And mark this fact to send you $1500 out of the Managers Pocket will cost us nothing; we mention this merely to show you that it is to our interest to send you a Prize. We enclose an envelope with our address, send us $10, and state in your letter whether we shall send you a Draft on your nearest Bank, or shall we send you the amount in "Greenbacks" by Mail, which last perhaps will suit you better. Please send your order by return mail, as we shall have to order your Certificate from the Managers.

                                                                                                           

Yours Sincerely

Fletcher & Co

 

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