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London, England, 1840-02-24 00:00:00

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which I also travel, had provided a banker's bill, which more
than covered both accounts. You only %ranted 4/. ss. Od. of
that person ; therefore, to take this bill of my friend, I received
61. Bs. Oil. of a third customer. You were then entitled to
10/. 133. Od. ; minus my commission 7% per cent., and stamp
2s. Id., on 34/. 4s. 0,1., amounting to 2t. 13s. 4d., leaving a
balance due to you in ca4lof the small sum of 71. 19s. 7d. ; and
the acceptance and this are all the money I received between
London and Huddersfield of yours; and but for the simple
fact of my offer from Wakefield, I would not have received one
penny. If I do not speak the words of truth, disprove it.
When I reached Huddersfield I .received a reply to my Wake-
field letter, written in a friendly way, but that you were not
open to a fresh contract, and from that period to now I have
not received one penny. On the Bth inst. I made up a letter
to you, enclosing the 23/. Ils., giving you a statement of the
transactions, and telling you the eircumt.nnees under which
these accounts were paid, and that I would p iv you the balance,
71. 19s. 7d., in any way you pleased when I heard from you
again. After the many large towns I passed through before I
got to Dewsbury, the thousands I have turned over for you,
and that to your advantage, for you have never added one clerk
more to the counting-house, I feel fully persuaded that in your
more deliberate moments you do not entertain the thought
that this small sum of 71. 19s. 7d. was re-eived by me but
with the intention of being regularly accounted for, as, in fact,,
it was ; for there must naturally be an open account until I
am paid my commission for my sales up to the time of leaving.
That the long standing connexion betwei n us has ceesed is
not attributable to me, is still my firm conviction ; this, how-
ever, you can do—furnish me with a copy of the letters I
wrote on the 2-It'a of September, and the 11th of October, on
this subject, and I beg to say, I think you are bound in candour
to do this after :he unmerited attack you have made on me,
and that when I was 200 miles ea?, and without, at ail events,
waiting for an explanation. By these letters I will stand or fall,
and it will be then seen whether I left you or you left me.
That I acted faithfully and laboriously for your welfare is known
to all the customers. That I stuck to your interest in all its
bearings, according to my ability, like the hammer to the beaten
anvil, you must admit, not thinking any exertions or pecuniary
sacrifice too great to prevent bad debts and get in the accounts ;
and if you will look to my last year's business you will find an
average of 15s. paid on all my accounts, and I believe 50/.
covered the bad debts last year made by me ; and I can only
add, the notice which you have given so prematurely, by way of
caution, was perfectly unwarranted. Finally, it is important
for me to state, that you hold the commissions due to me on the
whole of my last half-year's account, which, with balances also
unpaid, wilt amount, I expect, to something like 4,000/. The
actual sum you can soon know by reference to your ledger.
Had I continued to coll.eret your accounts, my due would
have been 300/. And now, Sir, after the attack you
have made, without even writing me on the subject,
you ought, as one act of reparatibia, to pay me my commis-
sion in full on the amount outstanding, without delay or deduc-
tion for collecting, and:to send me a check down, after taking off
the 71. 19s. 7d, received by me at Dewsbury, errors, if any,
and any claims you have upon me. Do this, furnish me with
a copy of my letters dated September 24, October 11, and
February 8, and let me have my journey ledger signed, ha con-
formity with the balance you claimed and I paid on the 4th of
January, as I have never had the opportunity of examining its
correctness, and then all further connexion between us will
entirely cease. At all events lam anxious, after what has
taken place, to have the accounts between us finally balanced,
and to effect that I am quite ready to leave any question as to
'allowance of the 74 commission to be settled by any respectable
commercial gentleman, to be agreed upon between us.
As it cannot be expected that I should remain here at ex-
pense and loss of time to await your answer, I have left the
whole matter in the hands of my solicitor, Air. Leeman, of this
place, to whom you will be good enough to address any commu-
nication which you may have to make upon the business.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
R. W. WHITFIELD.
Lockwood's Hotel, York, Feb. 13, 1840.