The letter is signed "Chatham."
Part of a collection of letters from and to William Pitt the Elder and William Pitt the Younger. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 894-895 for more detail.
Concerning a lawsuit brought by a Mr. Daw(?); replying to his letter to Lady Chatham and asking "What is become of that excellent and ready memory of yours, which has formerly been so well aware about the Concerns of your old Client and friend? Have you really so compleatly forgot, that you was an hour, by my bedside when I had the gout last winter, upon this very business of Mr. Daw's renewal of the Suit? I then gave you a very full and circumstantial relation of all that pass'd between Mr. Daw and me : how I reminded Him of his letter now in your hands; of the excuses He made, and of the strange proposal He made to me, to consent to go directly to the House of Lords : which proposal I absolutely refuse to consent to, when I related all this to you, you express'd the utmost astonishment at so strange and unreasonable a Proposal and applauded my refusal. I then instructed you to take the proper measures for defending my right in the re-hearing in Chancery, at the same time directing you to interpose no delays whatever, if you have put all this into oblivion, I must attribute it to multiplicity of great affairs : hanging CoalHeavers, saving Bruisers, and upholding ministers, however, I make no doubt that you will not, my good Friend, recall the dissipated Images upon your brain of my homely, uninteresting business, which believe I remain without malice."