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mission of one per cent usually charged for this service, but as your knowl- 

 edge and experience relating to the great stock market of London enable you 

 to get more for the stock than I could probably have done by all my own 

 efforts acting merely through a broker. My understanding is, that the whole 

 amount of what I am to allow you on all the operations from beginning to end. 

 including of course the effecting of insurance, is not to exceed three quarters 

 of one per cent ; but please say if I am right, and believe me 

 Always yours, 



Richard Rush. 

 Col. Aspinwali,. 



54 Upper Norton St., 9th June, 1838. R. nth. A. do. R. Rush. 



54 Upper Norton St., June 10, 1838. 

 My Dear Colonel: 



I am decidedly against waiting for higher prices than can be commanded 

 now, and should therefore like the whole of the Reduced annuities (£12,000) 

 sold to-morrow for the 6th of June, to be paid for on that day, unless indeed 

 something should occur not now known to me to make you think it inex- 

 pedient. In which case forbear an order to the broker until we meet. 



I am to go with my solicitors to the accountant general to-morrow at a little 

 after one, and if I can get away in time will make a point of calling upon you 

 at the office before five. 



Remaining, as always, yours. R. R. 



(Upon reverse:) 

 54 Upper Norton St., loth June, 1838. R. R. Rush. 



54 Upper Norton St., June 16, 1838. 

 My Dear Colonel: 



The more I reflect upon the stock sales, the more disposed I am not to de- 

 lay them. We know things present, but not to come. The little Queen I have 

 always understood is a great eater, and every newspaper tells us she is a 

 great frolicker. Now, if the little thing should chance to be taken sick in 

 these junketing times of the coronation, only think how the stocks would 

 come down. People would have the Duke of Cumberland before their imagi- 

 nations and what not besides — so, as we are now at the close of the week, I 

 think we had better get to work again on Monday or Tuesday in earnest, not 

 waiting for a rise lest, peradventure, a fall should plump upon us instead, 

 through some unforeseen cause or other; and the stocks are really high now. 

 Besides, as I have consented to lengthen out the sales on time (though not 

 later than the loth of July) to be waiting shortens the interval, and therefore 

 lessens our advantage in time contracts I should think. But I will be with 

 you on Monday morning by or before 11, and until we meet nothing need be 

 done, unless before I come the reduced should happen to touch 94 or the bank 

 stock 205. 



Always yours, R. R. 



(Upon reverse :) 

 54 Upper Norton Street, 16 June, 1838. R. i8th do. R. Rush. 



