The Cotman Letters 1835-1837

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(Postmark rather illegible
? Manchester NO 18-36.)

Nov 1836?

Mr Dr John
I cannot manage a letter to night but as a Gent offers to favour one I cannot allow him to start for your town without a scrawl from me as anything you say I am sure will be received with kindness and pleasure.
Nothing particular has occurred since I last wrote except that the brother of the King of Prussia has visited our warehouse and the Hoist for conveying goods up and down from the top to the bottom of the warehouse gave way one day last week it was the lower chain and the box ran up in a crash smashing the sky light.
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{Sketch of hoist}
Balance weight
Broken line
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I have heard no further about leaving but perhaps may at the end of the month but of course I shall take no notice of it if they do not to me.
I [[k]]now always take Milk and Bread for Breakfast and find it agrees with me very well, I have not heard from London some time but hope all’s well in that quarter. Harriet Morgan’s letter before I left Norwich promised me a purse or guard chain and I want both so if you will remind her of my wants and her promise she may favour me with both by the way of paying principal and interest. You will make my respects &c to all that very kind agreeable family my first, own, friends, out of the family and the ones I respect &c more than any family of our acquaintance. You will give my love to A.D.
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{Handwritten note in margin}
(Arthur Dixon)
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and if he would put pen to paper as he used to do when I was in London I will endeavour to answer his letters and Mother’s. I lost such a chance to-day in the shape of a Macintosh coat only one month old cost £2.7 sold by one of our young men to another for £1 it would have suited you well and had I known of it should have purchased