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Sir
My friend. S H. having undertakenaccepted of a new imploy
and that he may have more time to qualify himself for the
business he has undertaken in order to save every moment
of time for this purpose I have undertakeningaged to receive answer and
letters for him. in consequence of this I have to acknowledge
y rest of your letter of the 9th: inst: enclosing a dra: on Miss
Child for 20 guineas. before I deliver this letter & dra: to
Mr H. I hope you w will forgive me stateng a few facts to you
which has probably escaped your memory. Soon When you
but I being in possession of your letters to him and also
knowing an other Channels besides from your own Letters how essentially he
has served you. After the various letters which passed between
you and Mr Blair your first sugatration with him having
proved abortive. Mr H left no stone unturned to at your desire
endeavoured to find you another purchaser and was extremely
assiduous to accomplish this and he devoted all or the greatest
part of his time to find you out a to your service and was clearly
with Mr Forbes & Mr Douglas or some other monied man in
your business. When you found none of these last mentiond
gent<hi rend="underline">n.</hi> could be bro: to rest so large a Sum on a 64 of your
mine you requested of Mr H. as a verymost particular favour
that he would renew the negotiation with Mr Blair' accordingly
he did at your desire renew the negotiation and
on the faith of Mr Hs word as a person in whom he could
did conclude the bargain with you. Your fortunatly between
perhaps the only person in kingdom whose advice Mr
Blair would have followed and Mr H is in sistrier incurring
the displeasure of his friends who are connected with Mr
Blair by interfering in this matter and it was kept a
as the as profound secret from them — DHad MrH at the time he was
In your letter of the 26 April you send MrH a
Copy of your au and at the same time pay him a
compliment on the his good fortune of being admitted into
a share to be a Sharer in the profits of Hl Newton Mine
which you then seemed to think promised as well as
ever it had done, this I confess I thought might be some
recompence for the time he had lost and trouble he had taken
for you, as I see by your Letter of the 2d of April 1784
that you value 1/64his share of that mine at 1000 guinas
or at least you offered it to sale at that sum but I am
very sorry to see by your two last letters that this share
m is not worth it now is of no intrinsic value for it
will fetch nothing at present, nor is ever likely to do.
In this situation you surely never can think of imposing
Mr H accepting this shadd as recompence for his lost time and
also charg under the idea of an act of friendship taking from
him L to help to indemnify your loss - for the Cost I long
ago advised MrH to you make a demand on you for
the time of his in ransacking your business but he was
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