[London,] 22 April 1863 
9 Grafton Terrace, Maitland Park, 

Haverstock Hill 
Dear Weber, 

Will you stand surety for me with a Loan socirty (for £15 to 
£30)? 

I would not have troubled you with this request if 

1. the matter were not an entirely formal one, entailing no risk to 
yourself, for I shall be getting £200 from home at the beginning of 
July; 

2. Pfander, who would otherwise have been my second surety, 
had not unexpectedly had to go to Manchester for several weeks. 

In addition to other cases of illness in my family, I myself have 
been suffering from my periodic liver complaint for many weeks 
now and have thus been literally incapable of writing a single line. 
Hence the delay over the work for the Society* which was more 
disagreeable for me, of course, than for the Society itself. 

Salut. Your 

K. M.