Thursday.

My Dear Henry

Soon after I received your letter yesterday with its enclosure, I called on M^r Hammersley, ^<1> & was received by himself in his dark parlour, & he was as courteous as if I had been Miss Angela Burdett, ^<2> come to deposit a million.

I am charmed with him he is such a nice well bred gentlemanlike old man, & he advised me after much conversation & explanation, to have it brought into the 3 p^r cent consols, ^<3> because they are not liable to be reduced, but the new 3 & ½ p^r Cents may in 1840 be reduced by Government, but surely then it comes to the same thing, as they will never be reduced below 3. How can you explain this? Wright ^<4> says a man brought a letter & would not leave it because you were out of town. Perhaps it was from the Printer in Lincolns Inn Fields If you will tell me his name I can go to him & get it back & enclose it, I saw one yesterday that looked like that

aff^y y^rs
EF

M^r Moore ^<5> says if you were here he would like to help you to correct the proofs being in the habit

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Notes:

1. Hugh Hammersley (1775 - 19 Sept. 1840), of Hammersley & Co, bankers, London.

2. Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906). She had come into vast wealth in 1837.

3. See Doc. No: 03652, and Doc. No: 03663.

4. James Wright, footman to the Talbots & Constable for Lacock.

5. Thomas Moore (1780–1852), Irish poet.