| Description | Dear Madam,
In your favour of the 13th you say I have quite mistaken you, but I must own I cannot find it our, as I only wrote you what I had done and what intended-nay, I intend to do more, if possible, in the course of six months, for I intend to have no ballance on the wrong side with Birchin Lane, and I am perswaded you will be glad for my safe to see me stand on even and solid ground after the many storms I have been exposed to.
Mr. Wedgwood has declined takeing the money in January, but says he is perfectly satisfy'd to have Mr. Matthews' name taken out of the security and for mine alone to stand. I therefore intend to fill up a new bond and execute it and send it to be exchang'd for the former joint bond, which shall be cancell'd by your own fair hand.
But it occurs to me that, when you have settled all your affairs and collected your money, it is probable that it may be a desirable thing for you to place out such a sum on good security. In that case, I will give Mr. Wedgwood half a year's notice and transplant it from him to you, as it certainly would be more agreeable to my self to have it in the hands of a confidential friend.
By a letter from Weston to day, I find our trial is likely to be put off till February, but we wish it to come on before Christmass and have wrote to him this post.
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