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has it in his Power to befriend any man
whose Interest he espouses.---

Inclosed is an Invoice for Goods, which
be pleas'd to send by the Rappk Ship, &
I flatter myself they will be shipt upon
the best & cheapest Terms ---

As you are now in the Decline of Life
I am surprized you don't employ some Person
to assist you in y.r Business, especially in
writing, which I know by Experience (al'tho'
I do not write a Line where you write a
Sheet) wastes the Constitution, as much as
any thing ---- I have wrote by several
Opportunities for Insurance upon the Fly,
and as soon as the Bills of Loading, come
to hand I shall inclose you Duplicates, for
fear of an accident -- I Expect you
will honour my Draughts from Madeira
for an annual Pipe of Wine --- I am Sir

TO M.r Char.s Yrs&C Char.s Carter
Goore Mercht
In Liverpoole
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Gent. August 10th 1763

Your Letter of April the 6th by the Fau=
=quier, is now before me, wherein I find you
have been kind enough to honour my
Draughts to several, for which, I am obliged
to you, and I flatter myself; your Compliance
in that Particular, of paying my Bills punc=
=tually, will redound to our mutual Benefit,
because, for such Favours, common Gratitude
will oblige me to make ample Retaliation,
by sending you a very considerable part of
my Tobacco's yearly, so long as you can dispose
of them upon equal terms with others. --

As the Fauquier's Cargo was chiefly Sold off
before She left you, I should have been glad to
see the Price (of a few Lhds of my Consign=
=ment in her,) mention'd; however, I doubt
not, but that the Sales of the whole, will ap=
=ear, in due time. ---

Agreeable with y.r Request, I have given
the Hanbury, forty Lhds of prime, sweet
scented Tob.o, it is stout, waxy, & not over
prized, part stem'd, and made under my
own Eye, the nett W.t 46814 [tt] which is not
too great a Quantity for the Number of Lhds.
Upon the whole, I hope it is such as will
meet your Approbation and deserve a top
Price --- I inform'd you, that there was
a Prospect for a short Crop the last year,
which, was really the Case, in the part of the
Country, where I live, which sad Truth, I
know to my Cost, having made not
near so much as formerly, and had it been
so, throughout the Colony, I don't know