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material, since as Cressonnier is a Bookseller
of note, you have but to bid Francque
call in at the first Bookseller shop he happens
to pass when he goes for the
"Butter", & he may I think be pretty sure to know. At
the worst in the Rue St Jacques I think
it is which is the Pater-noster-show of
Paris, there can be no doubt of hearing of
him. You did not express any wish to have
any thing more that the mans name and
address — You do not desire, I see to have another letter to him in
lieu of that you left behind.
The affair of the money was really as
you suppose. It has not been paid in at
Gines's. I thought it better to go there to
make the enquiry than to put the question
to Mr Browne. I know not how I came
to take it into my head; but I was strongly
possessed with the notion of his having told me
it was paid in then. It certainly however
must have been my mistake, as it could
have answer'd no end for him to tell me it
was, when the fact was otherwise and must be known to be so . I will
take care to see him tomorrow, and do all in my power
to ensure his compliance with your directions.
Since the time I mentioned for Mr Browne's
return, he has been out of town a second
time: being called suddenly to Winslow to
see his Brother's Wife, who at the time he
was sent for was expected to die every hour.
She is now I understand somewhat better, &
Mr Browne is come to town again.
I could have wished to you have said
more to you, after, upon various subjects:
but really the contents of the latter part
of your letter have pressed and do continue
to press so hard upon my mind, that
I find myself unable to say more &
could wish, for fear you should think I neglect
your commands, to dispatch the my letter
this post. If so, I must & must put it up this moment or not at all. Tuesday
Oct:3rd 1775.
Friday Oct.r 6 1775.
While I was running with my letter to overtake the
Bellman, up a very stout ill looking fellow threw himself into
my way, and thrust his elbow into my stomach: at the
same time making a plunge for my handkerchief, which
succeeded no farther than to open the button of my
pocket. The pain this put me to for the moment,
put all thoughts of what I was about out of my head,
& for some time thought of nothing but getting home.
However I felt nothing of it the next day, not do I now.
Since the above I have seen Mr Browne, &
made him
promise to settle the affair before your return. He
would have staid till he could see you, grounding
himself upon your first letter to him: He reasoned and on an
overcharge which he thinks there is in the
to the amount of about a Guinea. He says he received
the rent for the houses as of course, after the compromise
of the suit, as your Attorney in that matter.
That Mr Barrett was not present; and that had he
been, the people would not have paid the money he thinks to
any other person than your Attorney in the cause.
If you had given directions to him to pay the overplus
to your Banker, he would have done it he says: but
that without such directions, he could not have been safe
in paying it in that manner, supposing for instance your
should have failed. That I know not how to join
with him in. It may be so, but I can't help doubting
it. However all this is now to little purposes
He offers now upon your order to pay in the residue
But can now hardly be worth while.
One thing I will take the liberty of mentioning, Sir,
while I think of it, and while I am able.
Sam has not had the advantage of a master that
Charles has. He has been left entirely to himself: in
which state had he not a steadiness and a disposition to attend to every laudable means of promoting his own interest that is not
to be found in one in a hundred at his age, scarce any
thing could have been expected from him in so short
a stay. Could not you find means to indulge him with
a month or if it were only a fortnight longer? Could not you
drop him at Montrail or Abbeville, or Boulogne
or Lisle or Dunkirk &c according to the road
you take: or possibly at Paris: Caen is by your
account of it a very dear place indeed But in some
places in France Boulogne for instance I am very well informed every thing
is at least as cheap again as in England. Lisle
I myself found very cheap. He might therefore board
I should think as cheap in some one or other of those
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