Mr. B. F. Bache has waited on me with information of your acceding to my proposition of making such allowance for the use of the Small Pica as two or three printers may deem just. I shall freely and chearfully submit the matter to any of the trade you may think fit.

As this occasion has offered, I beg leave to call your attention to two or three circumstances relative to this affair, which have given me no small uneasiness.

Mr. W. T. Franklin, when he called on me from you, said you had been informed that I was going to Europe, and that you wished for some further security. When I waited on you, you said that I was in a precarious state of health, and you then also expressed a wish for some other kind of security. But surely in either case, the substitution of a note of hand for a bond, could not afforded any additional security, had I either gone to Europe, or died.

During our conversation I mentioned that the size of the types had prevented me from receiving two or three hundred more subscribers than I had. This I did then, and do now firmly believe: and having, since the alteration of the types, procured 227 subscribers in New York in about a fortnight, where I had not before 5, the matter seems to rest on something more than bare opinion. Of this observation, you said that it was made to obliterate the obligation I lay under to you for selling me the types on credit. Was this not a very severe and harsh accusation? It was certainly an ill-founded charge, for two very solid reasons—first, I despise and scorn such a mode of cancelling obligation as much as you or any other man in existence possibly can—and secondly, I never consider the buyer of any article whatsover as under an obligation to the seller.

I had two strong inducements to offer the Small Pica for sale at a very low rate—first, having purchased a fount of Long Primer, I had no use whatever for the L.P.—and secondly, I was apprehensive that without making sale of it, I should not be able to discharge my bond to you, and my note for £58 for the Long Primer I had bought from Mr. Vaux, both of which were to be due about the same time. But it does not thence follow that for four months use (viz. in the Museum for March, April, May, and June) I should pay 4d. per lb, or 16 per Cent on the whole.

As to the deficiency of 17 lb in the weight of the fount, it has arisen, I am confident, from some mistake in weighing it at first, or from the very great quantity of coarse thick wrapping paper it was made up in when I got it—or perhaps from both causes together. Convinced I am that it did not lose one pound with me. I remain, sir, your obedient and very humble servant