
          Most revered dear Sir


 Feels of thankfullest obligation to You my benefactor overpower my
 shyness and fear of displeasing You, when I reiterated trouble You with
 my unimportant writings, and so I dare it, in the following lines to express
 to You heartfelt thanks for the renewed proofs of Your immutated benevolence 
 and kind remembrance to us. Before all I express my respectful
 thanks Your revered Miss Daughter for her kind letter with the enclosed
 generous present from Mr. Schott, a new benefactor to us by Your kind
 intercession.


 My dear Sir, how greatly I am sorry, to have caused You so much
 troubles with that deplorable lawsuit, I cannot express with words;
 but I can assure, it was not I, who had undertaken that contest.
 Afterwards I had gained the tragic conviction of being unmerciful deceived
 and cheated by one of the wickedst [wickedest] subjects, I did make none effort, to ask
 for justice of laws, especially of the Grandstr. [Grand Street] Justice-Court present,
 for I had gained a idea of the Jurisdiction of W. past year in my case
 against the old sharper Bucholz, who still peracts his bad profession
 without to be hunged. I could but resign myself to my inevitable ill
 fate, leaving the punishment of such a crimen to the Eternal Justice.


 However, friend Merkert himself has introduced that contest, he has
 taken in his own hands the matter with considerable confidence, although
 I was less sanguine. He has done all he could do, and when he even
 has dared to ask for Your testimony personally before the Court for me,
        