Informing Dickinson that a payment he had made to a creditor, via the bank Coutts & Co, had not been processed because his mother "did not know whether I was alive or no"; writing that this gave him some hope that she might at last be open to a reconciliation: "I know my poor mother's present state of languor and decay; and should have an immortal obligation to you, if when you come to town, you would be so good to make one effort more to heal a breach surely not edifying even to those who might be my greatest enemies. And in this, sir, Believe me you safely may, I have no interested views: but it would cruelly aggravate my misfortunes if Mrs. Cleland should leave the world without giving me the consolation of being sure of her forgiveness and blessing. Is it in nature that she can do me so cruel an injury?"; adding that he is sure Dickinson's "own natural goodness will suggest to you the great praise-worthiness of such an act"; telling him that he can reached at "Mr Meredith's a Staymaker in the Savoy where I have been near these six years."