My dear friend,

On my return from Ramsgate where Johnson and I have just spent a few days, I found your letter.

As to the money still due to me, I would first ask you to be so kind as to take out a new 3-month subscription for me to the *Gazette des Tribunaux* before the end of the current month. My subscription expires on 31 October. Later I shall perhaps find you something else to spend for me in Paris, so do not be in a hurry to send me remittances. As for Buckle etc., I am always at your service. I send you the *Eastern Post* whenever there is something of interest.

As for the firm of Triber, it is perfectly good and sound, so that you may deliver goods to it without the slightest fear. The address was indeed in Johnson’s hand, and it was indeed Cep. who handed it to the person in question. She has, besides, been provided with a good assortment of engravings here on the spot. For the moment we are a little short of this article and could not deliver for the time being.

I communicated your letter to the friend in Lower Charles St. He is no longer concerned with the affair in question, which has passed into other hands and consequently lost much of its interest for us. To give you precise information, it would be necessary to go into infinite detail; suffice it to say that some of the persons in whose interest this affair was to be embarked upon have behaved in an unworthy manner, and that in spite of the advice given, they are unwilling to break off their relations with individuals who merit neither credit nor trust, and even allow themselves to be guided by them in their speculations. So much so that their best acquaintances have withdrawn, believing that it would be throwing money out of the window to encourage them in operations which either would end badly or would result only in the benefit of real rogues. The individuals in question have, I think, received what they needed from another quarter. But there are always several good lads who are very hard-pressed in their trade for lack of capital, and if there were some means of making them some advances, it would give us great pleasure. One could apply to Johnson, who as you know is the general intermediary in these sorts of things.

With best wishes from me to all friends.  
Yours ever  
F. E.