
          you, through your agents. I did not wish 
nor ask to have it cashed, because if not required 
I knew it would be returned, &, if required, 
I believe a Duke's bill on Coutts would be 
very good even in America; so my impression 
was it was sent to you in the 
form of a bill. I know I sent it away, 
& if you could lay your hands upon my 
letter in which I mentioned it, I think 
that would settle the point. Messrs. 
Shaw & Vance are most obliging in offering 
to do anything in their power, 
but with the feeling they have, that it 
did not go to them, & not be entered 
in their books (as they assure me) I do 
not see what more they can do. I thought 
I had found them in error when I laid 
my hands on two of their letters, of different 
dates, each acknowledging the 
receipt of £10. Then letters I sent to them 
(& they have them still), but in answer 
to them they assure me that one was
to announce their having recieved £10,
the second your having recd. [received] the same 
£10. But this I should not have inferred

        