London
14 Jany 1847.
My Dear Horatia
I find from Stilwell <1> that he has a balance in your favour of about a thousand pounds – I advise you to invest half of it in the 3 per cent Consols, and perhaps it would not be a bad thing if you were to convert your other Stocks into Consols It simplifies accounts and the dividends are paid twice a year which is often enough.
I should like to know why you paid Arber <2> a bill of 37£ lately because I paid him myself for his valuation. I [illegible deletion] would have called on him myself to ask the question, but after a long search in a dark foggy day I could find no such house as No 29A Brook St nor any 29 at all. Indeed it was the only number which the street did not appear to possess.
Yours affly
Henry
I hope you will not suffer Thrupp to cheat you–<3>
direct to me at the Athenæum Club <4> – no particular Street
Notes:
1. Of Stilwell & Company.
2. See Doc. No: 05588, and Doc. No: 05727.
3. Charles Joseph Thrupp (d. 1866), a high quality coachbuilder on Oxford Street, London, later succeeded by his more famous son, George Athelstane Thrupp (1822–1905).
4. Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, London: WHFT’s club; a gentleman’s club composed primarily of artists and scientists.