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Letter from Charles Fox, St. Anne's Hill, to Thomas Stepney, 1804 January 7 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
103279
Accession number
MA 22948
Creator
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Display Date
Chertsey, England, 1804 January 7.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 23.5 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks "Chertsey Jan'y six 1804 / Thomas Stepney Esq're / Fenton's Hotel / St. James's Street" with his signature in the lower left corner.
From Propert. History of Miniature Art, v.II.
Summary
Promising to settle a debt; saying "The best thing on these occasions is to pay the money; the next best, to give an immediate answer; and I am sorry to say that the second best is all that is now in my power. It is not affectation to say that, although I now perfectly recollect the circumstance, I had really forgotten it, & that I am very sorry you did not remind me of it at some period when money was not so very scarce a commodity with me as at present. I promise you I will not again forget you and that I will settle the thing as soon as possible."