BIB_ID
106647
Accession number
MA 9971
Creator
Dalziel, E., active 18th century.
Display Date
London, England, 1799 April 5.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 19.9 x 16.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks: "George Romney Esqr / Hampstead."
Earlier catalog records identify E. Dalziel as the wife of Robert Dalziel and the Dalziels as friends of Romney's, but this information does not appear on the document and its source is unknown.
Removed from an edition of William Hayley's The Life of George Romney, volume 2, V.
Earlier catalog records identify E. Dalziel as the wife of Robert Dalziel and the Dalziels as friends of Romney's, but this information does not appear on the document and its source is unknown.
Removed from an edition of William Hayley's The Life of George Romney, volume 2, V.
Summary
Promising to pay the money owing him; saying that they have sent for a broker to sell their furniture, "a step we would not wished to have taken had it been possible to avoid as it must be attended with great loss selling the things for half their value;" writing "It has not been for want of industry or frugality that we have trespassed so long on your goodness but hoping from year to year our endeavours would have been more prosperous & it has been a constant theme of uneasiness to by [sic] under so great an obligation a sensation you Sir I trust never feel;" saying that Mr. Dalziel will pay Romney a call soon with as much of the money as they can muster.
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