"Letter from Henderson & Eadie to J.G.V. Porter"

1869

Henderson & Eadie

Handwritten

Length: 20.3cm
Width: 12.8cm

Sir,//We herewith return your paper signed, and agree to accept a lease from you on the terms as arranged and agreed to us on the 12th Dec and in this paper May 29. We regret however that the lease is to be confined to the manufacture of cotton, flax and wool. The conditions at first proposed by your Father were we think much more safe and wise and would promote the interests better of Landlord and Tenant better again that the premises be used for manufacturing proposed. We hope that Rev John Whittaker will yet take out this clause as it now stands, and insert the clause originally proposed by your Father.//We have forborne during the long pending negotiation about this lease to make any statement of how he and the public were affected by the delay and it might help to hasten a settlement if it were known to yourself and your Father that we have over 1000 lots of wool of last year’s clip still to manufacture and which ought all to have been finished in the end of last month or the beginning of this but which using our present exertion with the present machines we cannot have done thus far on you these offerings of next year. The extreme length of time that this state of things necessitates wool to be kept must ultimately discard it not business for it would be unreasonable to expect that people would continue to send their wool to us to be kept over a year, as will be the case with most of the above 1000 lots while their families in most cases stand in pressing need of the clothes. Earnestly hoping that the lease from your Father to you will now be speedily arranged.//We are//Yours truly//Henderson & Eadie

Kindly given by Roland Eadie

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