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can send Wax (which will be the latter end of May,)
and as that we believe is by no means a fluctuating
Article, if the profit of it should not quite come up
to the above, can hardly fall greatly short of it —
accordingly he is taking measures for securing all
the Wax he can.

There may be full half a Dozen or more other Articles equally
promising which I must omit either because the
information, we have been able as yet to obtain
relative to them, is not as yet full & precise enough,
or on account of the difficulty of extracting it from
him amidst his incessant Avocations

As a number of returns may be made in the
Course of the year, if you cou'd contrive to let
him have £500, in addition to what he has, there
seems little doubt of his being able to make Cent
pCent of it.

He has been selling Cloth at a profit, although he
has been cheated to such a degree by Capper (whom
he then employed, & whom you may be sure he
will employ no more) as to be made pay more
than the retail Price,

He is told that the Custom is, in that Trade, to give
Twelve Months Credit, and that the whole sale price
of Broad Cloth, that sells for 18s/ cannot at
most be above 14s/, now then if you can contrive
to get it at twelve months Credit, and send it over
here he is pretty sure of selling it at a considerable
Profit, and absolutely sure of selling it at no loss
in the latter event, when the worst comes to the worst,




Identifier: | JB/540/254/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.

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1786-03-17

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540

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254

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Penner

Samuel Bentham

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