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Sir —

As this may possibly not be too late to
catch you at Buxton, where time is much more plenty
with you, I suppose, than in Ireland, I may as
well trouble you now with a few more parlars
as wait for your Ans.<hi rend="underline">r to my former Lre, which
went on Monday by the Post directed to you at
Buxton, after having been returned on Sunday Morn.<hi rend="underline">g
from Wigmore Street.

As to the mode of provid.<hi rend="underline">g an Architect
for the Building. I take this for my datum: that
from experience you are afraid of peculation, &
on that Acco.t wish to keep the Bus.<hi rend="underline">s</hi> out of the
Hands into which it would naturally fall.

Your Idea was, if I understand you right, to get an
Englishman over to do it by Contract. Objections to this
Idea strike me still pretty much as they did at
first, but they would be got rid of I think by a
Slight modification.

If indeed your meaning is to confine the contract
to the Architect's own particular Recompence
leaving it to him or somebody else to contract for
the rest of the expence on the Acco.t of the public
I perfectly concurr with you. If you mean the
contract<hi rend="underline">g with an Englishman for the whole
expence in the lump, I have some doubts who<hi rend="underline">e
the measure of crossing the Channel for an Architect
would prove a frugal one if at all practicable?
A Londoner will know nothing of Dublin prices
nor Dublin Workmen. A principal Contractor
will hardly trust his fortune & Character with
sub-contractors he is totally unacquainted with.

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Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	050	Info in main headings field
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Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
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Marginals		Paper Producer	edward cooke
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Notes public	letter 714, vol. 4	ID Number	38667
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