Name/Title
Letter from Moses Thomas to Henry BrevoortEntry/Object ID
HHV 003.758Description
Letter from Moses Thomas to Henry BrevoortSubject
Request to extend repayment, Irving’s reduced circumstances, assurance of no risk to Irving or Brevoort, endorsers, Thomas recent failure in businessSubject Person/Organization
Moses Thomas, Henry BrevoortSubject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
Philadelphia, PA, New YorkCollection
Irving Manuscript CollectionTranscription
Transcription
Philad’a 7 Sep. 1818
Dear Sir
I have been endeavoring since the / receipt of your favor of 1st Inst. to make / arrangements to pay the draft rather / than renew the request. I have, however, / been disappointed, + must again beg the / favor of a renewal for 60 days. There / shall be [^ no] risque whatever in the businefs - / In the first place, I am not going to stop / payment, I hope, and in the next if / I did, I should not allow Mr Irving / to lose by me in his present reduced / circumstances. If this afsurance don’t satisfy / you, I will give Mr [Firman’s] endorse = /
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=ment. I stage in my last that Mr Irving / would not blame you for the accommodation - / so far from it indeed, that I was sure he would / regret my having been put to any inconvenience
Yrs very respectfully
M Thomas
P.S. owing to the failure of a friend I was un= / =fortunate on business but not an individual / among my endorsers lost a dollar be me . / This [??] would be a note endorsed by you _ / for my accommodation. Pray let me hear / from you by return of mail.
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[LABEL BY BREVOORT]
Phil: 7 Sep 1818
M Thomas
[POSTAGE STAMP - red ink, circle]
PHIL
7
SEP
[POSTAGE STAMP]
PAID
[POSTMARK]
12 [?]
Phil
[ADDRESS]
Henry Brevoort Jr. Esq.
New YorkTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
EnglishOther Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
Number Type
Former NumberOther Number
W 489
