
          Rec'd March 21st 1853


 London, 3rd March 1853


 My very dear friend,


 I wrote you from
 L'pool [Liverpool] immediately upon my arrival in England,
 & have long been hoping that I should hear something
 from you. I trust that neither affliction nor
 illness has been the cause of your silence. I must
 now speak of myself, as almost the only matter
 of interest to you, from hence. Very soon after
 my arrival, in London-- indeed, after the first
 conversation I had with the Gentleman with whom
 it was proposed that I should make a business
 engagement, I resolved to decline doing so, & within
 a short time aferwards, I accepted an invitation
 to join the firm of a very old & valued friend
 who was carrying on the business of a stock &
 share broker with his son. The father I have
 known for 30 years, very intimately, & the son
 almost ever since he could walk. Our new
 firm commenced on the 1st of January under
 that of Simon, Son & Carey & we carry on our
 business at 8 Warnford Court, in this City, to
 which address please send your letters. As my
 old friend, who is a man of handsome fortune,
 has been very liberal in the arrangements
 he has made with me, my [position?], in a 
 pecuniary point of view, as well as in
 every other respect, is infinitely superior
 to anything I anticipated when I quitted New York.
        