Madrid 24th March 1849
My Dear Sir,
Thank you for your prompt note of the 6th instant, and the accompanying Accounts. I send you my two Accounts, Travelling and Private, and beg you to review them, and debit and credit accordingly, if you find them correct. To judge of them you must have before you my two Accounts, General and Private, sent you with letter of 22nd May last. I prefer the two heads, Travelling and Private to General and Private, the former containing all pro and con items of Travelling, and the latter the same as to salary and private payments. You can arrange them as suits you best. I never mix them.
I did not give you Mrs McLean's Christian name, as by a Post Office notice seen some little time ago, the Christian name of one of the parties only is required.
Please to look again into your box for my documents. You should have two Wills, one I left with you in June 1847, and the one sent in June 1848. This last is in the form of a letter, and marked on both sides "Will of..., etc.".
As soon as the 3¼ Stock opens, please to buy me into it £100.
In your next, be so good as to state, 1 the cost of the Stock, 2 whether you have said Will, 3 if my accounts are correct, 4 your year's entrances.
Wishing you all strength in these busy days, and hoping to hear good accounts of your Annual Income, I remain,
Yours Very Truly,
James Thomson.