| Description | The enclosed notes are the result of some trouble and attention. Pray use them cautiously, that they may not operate against our own views.
I have carefully avoided representing savings or profits more than they would prove, and have thereby given such a man as Vivian great advantage. But ultimately I am sure to be thought of as I wish, and that he will be thought a dangerous man to rely on. All his ideas are wild; the superficial calculation you shewed me yesterday was in consequence of conversation with me, and I have a notion that Mr. Pitt told me of it when I shewed him my sketch of contingent expenses.
God bless and preserve you. I am ever gratefully and affectionately yours,
S. Garbett
[Edited transcript.]
Memorandum entitled, "Expence of delivering and circulating 3000 tons of copper coin," by John Vivian. c. Jan. 1788.
(This is presumably the "superficial calculation" referred to in Garbett's letter of 8 Jan.)
Memorandum on the fineness of guineas, &c., by Samuel Garbett. 10 Jan. 1788.
(According to the Assay Office Catalogue, this was enclosed in the letter of 8 Jan., but as it is dated after that letter it presumably is not the "notes" referred to therein.) |