I have but just received your’s of the 29th of August, informing me that the Payment of Tyler’s Legacy is stopped by an Injunction from Creditors, to whom he had conveyed it before his Departure from Birmingham. I imagine there must be some Mistake in this; it being natural to suppose that those Creditors, (if such they really are,) at Birmingham would have claimed their Right immediately on the Death of the Testator; and it seems extraordinary that they should never acquaint Mr. Garbet with their Claim, but let it lie dormant so many Years, and make no Mention of it ’till the Moment he was about paying the Money to you.

When I wrote the above I imagined Tyler to be in the Country and thought I should hardly be able to procure any Explanation from him in time to send you by this Vessel; but he happens to be in Town, and has just now been with me, and assures me that he never conveyed his Right to that Legacy to any Power whatever. That before he came to America, which is now near 20 Years, his Father dying left him £250 in Money, which enabled him to pay all his Debts to a Farthing, and left him Master of a considerable Sum besides, which, with the Money his Father’s Household Goods sold for, enabled him to purchase a Cargo of Birmingham Goods to bring with him. He appears to me to be an honest Fellow and I believe this Account is true, and that the pretended Creditors at Birmingham will not be able to make good their Claim. He is gone to his Lodging to write a Letter to Mr. Garbet on the Subject, which I will send you enclosed in this, if he brings it in time.

I am sorry to hear that Sally’s Illness has been of so long Continuance. By this Time I hope her Health is established and the Family returned to London. In my Letter to your Brother, written some Days since, I repeated the Order for more Volumes of the Gent. Magaz. to complete my Set, not knowing then that a Fire had consumed the Warehouse in which they were stored. Perhaps, however, your Bookseller may be able to procure them at second hand; if not, I must do without them. I shall pay your Brother here the Amount of the Account in your Letter, and what other Demands you have or will have upon me you [remainder missing]