ANDREWS

(Joshua, Investor) Interesting group of 10 letters to his partner the stockbroker Charles Hill,

of 23 Threadneedle Street, saying “I observe some fluctuations occasioned by the arrival of the Mex[ica]n Mails ... I should like to be informed twice in the week ... has there been any news from Canada?”, with instructions on particular stocks, “if you want Money, Lawford Richardson I have ask’d to supply you”, he writes “in case of emergency consult Mr. Folliot Stokes ... If I have any Con[tinuation]s open, close them & 2000 Brazil Bonds”, the third side is an I.O.U. for “150 Colombian Shares which I engaged to deliver when called upon to do so”, but he is not to show this I.O.U. to Stokes (Nottingham, on tour, 24th May 1833), “There will be some Meat left with you which I wish forwarded by Clarke or Joe to the Heath [South Row, Blackheath] ... What is the price of Mortgage Del Monte?” and asking for a statement of accounts connected with this place as I am settling with the Auctioneers” (5th July 1833), “Sell 10 Canada or 20 for   money   if you can. I will write to Mr. Perry who has some on Contn. at a low figure” with on the third side a letter for Mr. Stokes, “I cannot get back to Town until Wednesday morning ... If Hill should find himself pinched will you oblige me by rendering him any assistance you can”, (Bartley Manor House, in the New Forest, 3rd November 1833), “I had forgotten Saty. was Lord Mayors Day - so that you will not see me till Monday Morning. Leave the Key of the Books &c &c in a drawer of my Desk in the Private Room. I want some occupation in the morning when I come in” (7th November 1833), “You had better sell more Spanish L[oan] & 20 Canada at 55½ having bought them at 4½ (?November 1833), the remainder show rather a different picture, he writes from France “My most sanguine expectations have all failed ... so that at the end of two years of anxiety & care, I am literally worse off, & more dependant, than at the moment of my quitting England - then I had Friends - then I had   more than a Partner in adversity  ... Lawford [Richardson] informs me that your business is not so promising as formerly ... He has again taken my Dear Boy under his protection, but his leaving me is a great trial ... At the end of this Month I leave this place, or at any rate, all interest in the Mill ... My successor is an Englishman ... He says I may still carry on my little home connection in Flour if I like - as he is prohibited from dealing in Corn or Flour”, and asking for news of his former friends, (13th December 1838, Moulin Adelaide a Mons, near Aigueperse, Puy-de-Dôme), there follow two copy letters, probably in Hill’s handwriting, whereby Andrews, apparently on a short visit to England, makes easier terms for Hill, “in future I shall receive one fifth instead of one third of the net profits of your business as a Stock Broker” to a maximum of £300 instead of £500, as he understands “from Mr. Richardson that our former arrangement has in many respects operated injuriously to you” (1st October 1839), “On this, my first visit, to London, after so long an absence, I have abstained from making calls”, he refers to “a severe Cold, & Coughs, which I have attributed to your new mode of travelling ... I leave for my solitude tomorrow morning ... It always gives me pleasure to hear you are on frendly terms with my Son - & at times doing business together” (3 Paragon, Blackheath, c. October 1839), in the last letter he sends greetings by his son, and thanks him most warmly for “the volume of Sermons ... they have an unusual interest - in the knowledge of so many members of the Beddowe Family ... I have not seen a daily paper for weeks ... As the meeting of Parliament approaches I shall subscribe again to a Reading Room”, he comments on other books of Sermons including Dr. Croly’s on the Tercentenary of the Bible in English (1835), in a P.S. he returns to share prices, “Spanish affairs do not look so well ... [the pretender] Carlos seems so very strong”, (53 Rue des Viellards, no place, c. 1840), together 13 sides 4to. & 10 sides 8vo. plus address panels, Nottingham, Bartley, Blackheath, and France, 24th May 1833 - c. 1840

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