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I have this day rec^d your kind letter of yesterdays date giv^g
us an Acc^t of your getting safe to Ramsgate I am much at a loss
for y^e key of my desk in the Counting house with a little reed tyed
to it w^ch you had the Night before you left us & cant be found, am
obliged to break open y^e desk if you find it pray send it by y^e Pylot.
I don't remember you told me whether all y^e wine bought of
Blydestein amount to £18.3--& a Jar of Raisons & some almonds
of Andrews were for y^r Ships Stores or any part of it for y^r passage
the Surplus of y^e hyson tea is charged to me ^[@]44 & hope w^t y^r allow^ce
will hold out more it must be sold for my Acc^t & if any of our
Correspond^ts should want any for their family use, Mr. Waller,
Everard, Wythe, Nicholas, Ambler, &c. &c, &c. you may lett them
have it at y^e Cost & they order me to charge them w^t y^e same
or pay y^o for it I shoud be glad of a few pound by Andersons return
if he can bring it. I offer^d to pay Capt. Anderson for Mr. Smiths
Passage, as he desir^d by a Note Left on my Desk, but y^e Captain
declared he wou'd take nothing & refused, I gave him y^e hamper
of Madeira w^ch was put onto the Ship. I have p^d him £12.12-
for ^{you and} the same for Mr. Smith to buy Stock &ca. As you left me
no directions from Mr. Smith about Jones's Bill for £150-
as Mr. Smith never Accepted the same in writing, I was obliged
to write to Jones & enclose it, however the Captain has y^e letter
single & I desir^d him to give it to Mr. Smith. I have mentioned to
him if he desires if he desires to have it paid, that he wou'd accept it & send it to me, with his order at y^e bottom of y^e Bill for paym^t
in the violent hurry we were in at Andersons departure there
was two mistakes to Mr. Smiths disadvantage ^{in his Acct. Current} have made out
another and inclos it to him. Ball^c £662.4.5 so will desire
him to destroy the letter other. We are well pleas^d that y^o took
a French leave as it saved a good deal of pain & uneasyness
on both sides. I was taken with a bilious Vomiting y^e morning
you sat off but am now by help of Daddy Prowting Rhubard
& Magnetia I thank God quite well. we propose to make a little
Excursion in the Country in a few days. Your Mother has sent
the bunch of keys y^o left by Anderson w some parcells & if you
[h]ave the key of your desk in the Counting house y^o may as well
[se]nd it. We all wish y^o health & happyness & a pleasant passage
in which Mr. Wilkinson joins us

The India Directors have
beat y^e MaleContents to the
joy of JW not one of them
had the luck to gett in Y^r Friend
Cap. Hitchen was one of the Defeated
in Sullivans List.-

To
Mr. Jn^o Hatley Norton
Bound to Virg^a in the Rachel & Mary
Cap^t W^m Anderson
to be Left at M^r W^m Ansells
or Capt Smiths
at Ramsgate
in Kent

London 10^th Apr: 1767
Rec^d from JN
Sep^r . 1767 Coppy
Answer'd fully p Cap^t
Lilly Nov^r 1767
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This Letter has been
answered in part
long ago-