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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D3580/C/513
Title18 June 1819
George Morewood at London to James Longsdon junior. Untoward circumstances have made it proper for writer to suspend payment. In James' case remedy provided and that the best the urgency of the occasion served to admit of. Writer's good friend Mr T W Hetherington will pay James' Bill for £240 due tomorrow reserving his right of coming back on James for it if hereafter writer proves unable to satisfy the payment. He will not in any event urge James to an inconvenient payment.
James' brothers at Charleston have a large value of bills running upon writer, but writer begs to assure James and family and friends that writer is neither unmindful nor hopeless of accomplishing what their credit and best interest requires. In uncertainty of writer's own affairs obliged to speak with some reserve but his ardent desire to protect them to the utmost writer must beg them not to entertain a doubt of.
Postcript Mrs M and writer's sister support themselves well and cheer writer by their courage.
Date1819
Levelfile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorLongsdon family of Little Longstone
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