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{London,] 21 April 1877 

To Mr B. Lindheimer 

The last time you came and saw me, I categorically told you that 
I could not let you have more than the £1 I had advanced you, 
and you yourself declared that this went without saying. I am all 
the less prepared to go back on this in that, according to your own 
story, you could at any time obtain money from your friends in 
the City, were it not for your reluctance to approach them to this 
effect. But if the position be viewed in its proper perspective, it 
cannot possibly be harder for you to approach these friends of 
yours, who know you and your circumstances and to whom you 
were recommended, than myself who is as much a stranger to 
you as you are to me. In any case, I cannot spare you this step, 

having already more than enough to do lending an occasional 
helping hand to party comrades who have no one in the City from 
whom they might obtain advances, and I would ask you politely 
but unequivocally to regard this as my final word. 

I am, Sir, etc. 

E.