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File contains letters sent from John Northrup and Sons to Joseph O'Brien. John Northrup and Sons was a merchant based in Halifax, Nova Scotia during the nineteenth century. The company sold flour, fish, groceries, liquors, dry goods, and other materials. The correspondence pertains to business matters of various vessels, including the barques "Janet" and "Lucknow."

Item is an order of passage issued to the Eliza Oulton by the Ottoman Empire. The order was presumably requested from the British embassy on behalf of the vessel. A piece of the document is missing. This particular document is written in the Divani script, an ornate Ottoman Turkish script that is extremely difficult to read and write. Divani was popular for writing court documents because it was difficult to forge.