Letter

R.A. Slaney to his brother William Henry "I have received your letter and statement and feel grateful to you for the trouble you are taking, which may I hope, be the means of saving our young Friend from ruin and sorrow and poor Lizzy and your nieces etc from much privation and suffering. There are several things in the accounts which we can talk over and want explanation - I am sorry to say his statements are sometimes loose and inaccurate and you ought to be sware you cannot always depend on them. I shall therefore as you have seen him depend on the written memorandum I will endeavour therefore if you will manage to see to the payments to advance and pay to your account at Messrs. Child's 1600£ as an advance to Eyton on his Bond - please state to him clearly I do this as an act of Friendship to him and his family - on condition 1st that he solemnly promises to take steadily to water and leave off intoxicating liquors, and 2 that he arranges and you for him the direct payment to Lizzy for the children and through the Bankers of the £300 per annum and 3 that he agrees (and you will see to it) the gradual sale of shares and of necessary farming stock to meet the debts coming on, and to pay off as soon as possible by care and economy the other debts. Tell him I will under these conditions though at some inconvenience make him this advance - I think you might get the Bond on a stamp as a promissory note at Shifnal without having it from Jenkins and you can draw it up shut (?) and it will do quite well P.S. "I should probably leave town for Shropshire about 1st April and return to London after Easter Week on 10 or 12 April you will hardly come up till after Easter. I suppose it will do if £1000 is paid in a day, or two and £600 in a week after to your account. I am glad Lizzy knows the whole - if he will be steady all will do yet!"