My dear Sir,
I have a thorough knowledge of mercantile affairs, and your loss cannot be felt by the community with more sincerity than by Thomas M. Kindersley & Co., with whom you have been transacting business.
You will, I understand, succeed in having a prospect of obtaining health to enjoy the appointment in the service of the Honourable Company if you confer with us when you are there.
Many of our friends cannot congratulate you on the climate of Hong Kong. I sincerely wish a comfortable appointment with pure health.
If you go there, I am told there is one firm, Lun Biddulph Furchgott & Co., in that society.
In that case, my aim is to be free from this Coventry, as in the many successful transactions we have had with you involving large amounts, you have shown yourself to be prudent.
27, Laurence Pountney Lane,
London, 15 October 1813.