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PS. — Wc are sending Mr. Pye some nitro-phosphate for turnips on 
Monday next. Should you require any we shall be pleased to send you some 
at the same time at 5?. 5s. per ton. We can recommend the above article 
as a first-class manure for all kinds of roots. 
Memoraxdcji. 
June 25th, 1883. 
From 
The South London Manure Company, ' To Mr. H. Ledger, 
17, Lilford Eoad, i Mortimers, 
Camberwell, London. I Cliffe. 
Dear Sir, — Your letter to band late Saturday ni<Tht. The four bags 
N. of Soda forwarded to you we cannot guarantee analysis, as it is part of 
a lot we supplied to a party some two months since, who liquidated a week 
after we supplied it, and we succeeded in gettinsj an order for its return to us. 
He had stored it at a public-bouse in the neighbourhood of Lewisham, where 
it has been ever since. We have no doubt of its being all right, and if you 
choose to keep it you can have it at lis. Qd. per cwt., if not, we have 
a customer who will take it at another station, and we can forward you half 
a ton from our stores that has not been out of our possession since we drew it 
from the Docks, at 12s. Qd. per cwt., which we can guarantee. Please reply 
at once, so that we may order the four bags on to another station if you do 
not keep it. Have sent this by the 12.57 train, carriage paid. Please reply 
by this evening's post. (Unsigned.) 
The vendors later in the day wrote again to Mr. Ledger, as 
follows : — 
Memorandum. 
June 25th, 1883. 
From 
The South London Manure Compary, | To Mr. H. Ledger, 
17, Lilford Road, Mortimers, 
Camberwell, London. Rochester. 
Dear Sir, — We wrote you this morning and foi-warded letter per 12.57 
train from London Bridge ; was to (sic) late for 9.49 train. We explained 
reasons for not goaranteeing analj-sis of the four bags N. of Soda, as it has 
not been in our possession from the early [jart of April till within the last 
three weeks, when we with some difBculty and expense obtained an order to 
take the twenty-two bags stored by consignee at a public-house at Le«-isliam, 
and having a few bags left there when your order came to hand we forwarded 
some from the above. We have no reason to suspect it has been tampered 
with, and if you choose to keep it we will invoice it at lis. &d. per cwt., if 
not, we can transfer it elsewhere at the above price, and shall be pleased to 
forward you half a ton from our stores at 12s. Qd. per cwt., which has not 
been out of our possession since we carted it from St. Katharine's Docks, and 
can therefore guarantee it. If our letter per train does not reach you soon 
enough that we hear from you by first post to-morrow Tuesday morning 
.shall run-down to-morrow morning by 9.49 train from L. Bridge. — Yours 
truly, pp The S.L.M. Company, 
E. R. 
Mr. Ledger of course declined to accept these goods without 
the required guarantee. 
2. A sample of nitro-phosphate manure sent on June 26th, 
