If by this time you have not succeeded in [the sale of my Plantation,] according to what I wrote you the 27th. Feby. and 20th. March, as [I am anxious to] transfer my Property from the West-Indies to the more eligible Situa[tion of my] own residence, and as a last effort, although I have little doubt that by [the time] this gets to your hands, that you will have obtained at least £6,000 sterling my last Limitation, yet as you and I have taken such pains I would not for some hundreds that our Labour should prove fruitless, therefore you have now my Authority to make such an abatement of Price, as that I shall receive clear of all Charges in negotiating and paying, Five thousand five hundred Pounds Sterl., which is the last offer I shall make. I am with high sense of the obligation you have laid me under Dear Sirs Your much obliged and obedient humble Servant