Rec'd by sale of the} £ s d | Seal - 3 - 3 - 0

Portugal piece no} 3 - 10 - 0 | Fiddle Strings - 5 - 0

more than } | Gloves - - - - 3 - 3.

I rec'd the same from my own | 3 - 11 - 3

I doubt the man (Greensil)

cheated me.

I hope M rs D. will not fail to send me the next letter she receives.

The dog-skin I send cost 7 s. 6 d It was the largest they

had — They said 4 pair of upper-leathers might be cut out

of it. I will have no more Seal Skin shoes — they crack & don't

wear well. The pairs I bespoke I suppose are done — otherwise countermand them

That indolent beast Elmsly has not got the sheets for me to

see yet.

+I.B. Jan y. 19 th 1777.

Maljewsky's Code

Lind's Chairman Scheme

Money accounted

I have told M rs W. in the letter I am just going to dispatch

to her along with the Book, case, Shoes &c that from her not writing I had begun

to fear she might have been tired of her correspondent &c.

by way of my not writing: that I had communicated my suspicions

to M rs D. who told me she could assure me from

the best authority it was no such thing, but that M rs W.

expected me to write — This M rs D. must be aware of, that

we may be all in a story. The packet I shall send by

the Battle Diligence that goes from the Bolt & Tun tomorrow at

6.

Sunday even g. 19 — Jan. 1777.

I send you the Seal last made as a novelty. It was sent hence

in a hurry, & is not cleaned yet from the dirt, graving-wax

or whatever it may be — Sope & water or at worst Vitriolic

Acid will do the business. When we meet we will toss up

which shall have which.

I have had so much plague with writing to the Ws

and about the W's M rs I must beg M rs D. to excuse me

for the present. You will shew her all that is shewable — Every-

thing if you will about myself. Not that about Lind's embryo project

for himself. He will propose it as soon as he has got the Translation

of his "Answer" &c printed which he expects in a few days.