Folios 139-140. Letter from Cha [Charles] Byerly to Monsieur de Meuve 'marchand banquier...

Folios 139-140. Letter from Cha [Charles] Byerly to Monsieur de Meuve 'marchand banquier au cul-de-sac de rue de Bourdonois, Paris, for Monsieur Dolson reporting the scarcity of money in London making it impossible to raise money on mortgages. The first page has been written over another letter 'Get Mr Dolson to pay the postage as far as Holland else when it comes here it will be taken for a French letter for Mrs Skinner at Mr Johnson's [sic] a cabinetmaker next door to the 'Black Boy' in Stonecutters Alley in the Pall Mall. By this and the last direction I sent you, yours will come safe to me if you make use of the same precaution I do now. I am very much perplexed I can't have an answer what Hyde carried you. It's now ?six weeks since he is gone and our friends wait with all the impatience possible for an answer. I am y [your] G. I forgot to tell you that the doctor was taken as he was a going [?] and daily is expected in town. [?He] was taken for Sir J Montgomery whose lady has been very indifferent for his [?] for she industriously published everywhere [?]'.