[A single sheet, on Burwell & Grey letterhead, among a sheaf of practice-sale documents in Dr. David Linden's office safe at 14 The Crescent. The sheaf is not organized; the 1891 receipt is on top of the pile, with older pages beneath.]

BURWELL & GREY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Offices: No. 12 Harborview Terrace, Port Hume J. H. Burwell, Esq. — T. A. Grey, Esq.

October the Seventh, 1891.

RECEIPT

Received from Dr. Theodore Pemberton, M.D. (of Port Hume), the sum of Three Thousand Eight Hundred Dollars ($3,800.00), in consideration of the transfer of the medical practice heretofore maintained at No. 14 The Crescent (Port Hume) — formerly the practice of the late Dr. Abraham Kelsey, M.D. (d. 1879), and, since the sale of the practice to Dr. Horace Caldwell, M.D. in 1881, maintained by Dr. Caldwell until his retirement of the present date.

The transfer includes the offices at No. 14 The Crescent (which the parties will arrange directly with the landlord of that property), the fixtures and equipment per the schedule attached hereto, the practice's library and correspondence files (including any files retained from Dr. Kelsey's original practice), and the professional goodwill as described in the covenant of sale.

It is understood that Dr. Caldwell shall retire from active practice upon the date of this transfer, and shall not resume the practice of medicine within the County of Port Hume within a period of seven (7) years from this date, per the terms of the non-competition clause.

Received in full, Horace Caldwell, M.D.

Acknowledged, Theodore Pemberton, M.D.

Witnessed, J. H. Burwell, Esq., for the firm.

[marginal pencil annotation, a later hand (Linden's, on acquisition in 1897):]

"Received these papers in my own practice-purchase, 3 June 1897. Dr. Pemberton has removed to Toledo. The Kelsey correspondence files are in the cabinet marked 'Kelsey — 1869-1879,' which I have retained. I have not read them. Most are ordinary professional records. There is one small private bundle which Dr. Pemberton told me, at the handover, was 'of a confidential nature from before our time' and which he had never opened. I have not opened it either. It is tied with a black ribbon and lives in the rear of the cabinet. I will let it lie. — D.L., 1897."

[below, in the same hand, but dated 1909:]

"I have occasion, in clearing the cabinet of older files to make room for current, to have lifted the Kelsey bundle to dust behind it. I have still not opened it. Dr. Pemberton was right that some papers are best left as one received them. — D.L., 12 April 1909."