SD76. James Scarlett to Edward Moulton-Barrett (father)
Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 307 (in part).
[London]
June 29th 1807
My dear Barrett
I have just reced your letter & you may be assured I shall attend to the contents. Boddington & Co of course must abide by their engagements with you. I have got their agreements by which I find they were to advance & accept for you to the amount of 7200l in 1807 in the whole & 8600 in 1808– You of course have a right to call upon them for the whole as it suits your own convenience & you may rely upon their compliance. I have got some of our old memorandums & scraps of paper by which I find that your bill to Myman is accepted payable at your bankers <so> Sharp therefore must be requested to place the money there for you. You had best consult your own memorandums to know if the other two bills to Tindall & Fortman are all payable at Rogers & Co & let me know that I may be governed accordingly. You must recollect that I shall have money to pay you this year. I have not as yet been able to get the Merchants accts owing to a delay at New Castle—but I hope to be as good as the expectation I observe by the aforesaid scraps of paper I had found last year, of having in hand for you 1500l[.] you shall know however the moment I can ascertain the sum. How did you settle your difficulty with Barker? I desired Mr Moore (who came to me with your letter) to go to Barker’s atty immediately & say that I would be answerable for any sum he could establish against you, but that his impertinent proceeding shd not put him in a better condition than other tradesmen who had conducted themselves more handsomely towards you, I have not heard the result.
I think Sam is greatly improved & very engaging– As he proposes to make only the Northern tour there can be no risk in his going abroad & I really think it will be of great <…> to him—perhaps if peace is made this year he may find <…> comfortable chateau for you where you might like to stay a few months with him. I am anxious to hear of Mrs B. as Sam tells me she was on the point of being confined when he left you. You do not mention her.
Would you like a house in Hertfordshire? I have lately heard of one in a good park, which I think might suit you unless it sells very extravagantly. It is Bedwell Park belonging to Whitbread. I mean to ask him about it.
I regret very much that I saw so little of you in town– I was obliged to run half over the County to attend Elections. I believe I shall not be at Durham until the assizes are nearly over, on account of Manchester Sessions, but I hope to be able to catch you as I pass through the County. Mr. Rham has been here this instant to apprize me of the addition to your family upon which I heartily congratulate you & Mrs Barrett. I am glad to hear you have a son. Believe me ever
Yours most truly
J Scarlett
Mrs S. begs to be kindly remembered & to add her congratulations to mine–
Address, on integral page: Edwd M. Barrett Esqr / Coxhoe Hall / Durham.
Docket, in the hand of EM-B (father): June 29, 1807.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Eton College Library.
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