
          Basel June 27th 1872.


 My dear Sir,


 I have received your very kind letter
 of June 13th, with the enclosed bill of Exchange (Tertia)
 dated Assay Office New York, May 28th 1872, for �535 Sterling,
 payable at three day's sight by the Union Bank, London,
 and I would have acknowledged it with due thanks
 by a letter to yourself & one to Mr Crooke forthwith, but
 for an extraordinary circumstance which forced me to 
 wait and of which I must therefore inform you, lest
 you might think me very negligent & ungrateful. I presented
 the bill of Exchange, on June 13th to Mssrs Iselin
 & Stochelin, Bankers of B�le who were ready to pay
 the money at once, but, finding that the spelling
 of my name on the bill was at variance with my 
 own signature (C.F. Meissner) which I had already
 put on the back of the bill, while the Clerk at the
 Assay Office had written (both on the bill & on the
 enveloppe of your letter which contained it) C.J.
 Meissner, and C.J. Meissner, they were afraid,
 considering the punctiliousness of the English in
 such matters, [added: the Union Bank] might refuse the bill, & they proposed
 to delay the payment till after the arrival
 of the Prima & Secunda Bill by which the doubts

        