Copy of a letter to James E. Hughes regarding his purchase of property from Ashford Wesley Warnica. The letter is typewritten and features a letterhead for "Alexander Cowan successor to Lennox, Cowan & Brown, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Conveyancer, Etc. from Barrie, Ont. The letter reads: "James E. Hughes, Esq., Bradford, Ontario. - Re Warnica & You - Dear Sir; I have completed my search of the property being purchased by you from Mr. A.W. Warnica & except for the question of dower which applies to all the lands you are purchasing and which no doubt can be arranged. The title seems to be satisfactory, except the title to those portions of lot 15 in the 12th Concession of Innisfil. This property formerly belonged to John Franklin Warnica, who, by his will, devised it to his father John L. Warnica subject to a mortgage then against it and subject to two $500.00 legacies to John and Harvey Doyle. There does not appear to ever have been any deed give by John L. Warnica, devisee of these lands, to A.W. Warnica, who is selling to you, and there does not appear to be any proof in the Registry Office of these two legacies having been paid. Mr. Warnica, I presume, has a good title by possession, but it is for you to say whether you will take a possessory title when no conveyance has been made to him of these lands. There are, of course, two mortgages aggregating $1500 against the lands you are buying, about which you know, and these can be easily arranged. I shall be glad to see you the first time you are in Town with reference to the matter." The signature of the letter writer is cut off in this scan.
