| Description | Dear Sir, I have this minute received yours of the 12th instant and am sorry to see you have quite mistaken my motive for writing to you. I had not the smallest intention of hurrying you to pay off your account. I have no doubts but I shall be able with great ease to render you all the accommodation you may require, and shall look forward to the payment to Mr. Wedgwood on the 20 January-but more of this when we meet. I remain (with kind respects to your son and daughter and Miss Mynd), dear sir, yours affectionately, Charlotte Matthews [Edited transcript.] |