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" Atherstone : July 31, 1888. 
" Dear Sie, — I enclose account owing for oats. I have credited you 
25s. on the lest ton of linseed-cake. I have had no reply to my letter in 
which I offered to exchange the cake or make the allowance. Your bailiff 
tells me he has instructions from you not to buy any more cake from me. I 
think it rather arbitrary to issue such instructions on account of a mistake, 
which I have acknowledged and offered to rectify. I regret to lose you as a 
customer, but can say and do no more than I have done. — Yours truly, 
" F. S. P. Wolferstan, Esq. "J. K. Bouene." 
" Statfold : August 7, 1888. 
" SiE, — Your letter of July 11, and a subsequent one (of 31st), referring to 
the same subject, is easily answered by a simple statement of facts and dates, 
" I have insisted on having nothing but pure cake from you for years, and 
you know it. So entirely is this the case that when you invoiced to me in 
April last some cake as ' special,' I immediately objected, as you will doubt- 
less recollect. When,onthe passingof the Merchandise Marks Act, you refused 
longer to invoice your cake as ' pure,' I had some correspondence with Dr. 
Voelcker, and consented, and since that time have had it invoiced as 95 per 
cent. pure. 
" Knowing all this, you deliberately offered to my bailiff some cake then 
at Tamworth Station which was not, and you must have known was not, 
95 per cent. pure. 
" You invoiced it 95 per cent, pure, and you received payment for it as 
95 per cent. pure. 
" I then, not liking what I read about you and your cake in the Royal 
Agricultural Journal of April 1888, sent a sample to be analysed by Dr. 
Voelcker, with the following result : — 
" 'Not pure, nor 95 per cent, pure, or anything like it.' 
" I received this analysis on Thursday, July 5. 
" Now mark the dates. On Friday, July 6, I told my bailiff the result 
of the analysis. 
" Oil Saturdaij, July 7, my bailiff saw you at Tamtcorth, dnd told you 
the cake had beeyi analysed 2vith a very unsatisfactory result. 
" And on the folloiciny Wednesday , July 11, you coolly write to me, 
taking no notice of the fact that you had been told the result of the analysis, 
but saying that you had been ' calling over your books ' ! that it was in fact 
all a mistake, and offering me a reduction of 25s., which I decline to accept. 
" I pr efer to .send a copy of this correspondence to the Eoyal Agricultural 
Society, that those who read it may form their own conclusions. — I remain, 
yours truly, '< F. S. P. Wolfeestan." 
" J. K. Bourne, Esq." 
" Atherstone : Aug-ust 8, 1888. 
" Sie, — I pass over the insinuations in your letter of yesterday's date, as 
I am sufficiently well known to afford to do so. I simply reply to ' facts ' 
vpith 'facts.' It is quite true that your bailiff told me on July 7 that you 
had had the last ton of cake analysed with an unsatisfactory result ; but he 
will also be able to tell you that I replied to him immediately, saying, ' I 
have discovered that there has been a mistake over this ton, and that it was 
not 95 per cent., but the ordinary quality.' And 1 also added that I should 
write and inform you of the iact. Absence from home and pressure of 
business prevented my writing to you till "\^'ednesday, July 11, and I then 
wrote describing to you how the mistake had arisen" and offering to allow 
you the difference (25*'.) that the crushers make between their ordinary 
quality and the 95 per cent., or change the cake if you had it by you. To 
this you did not reply. I have no objection to your publishing our corre- 
