Letter – Martin Morrison to Diana Beaumont – 18 Sep 1807

Document Type: Letter
Date: 18 Sep 1807
Correspondent: Martin Morrison
Recipient: Diana Beaumont
Archive Source: TWA DF HUG 149
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Mrs Beaumont						Newcastle 18 September 1807

Addressed to Col Beaumont  Tynemouth

					

I beg to inform you that I have sold to Mr Parker 20,000 Pieces of Lead at £26 per fo[dder] for refined, & [£]25 Common, to which I was induced, by Mr Parker’s declaration that he would not engage to wait an answer from his House in London, and an anxious desire to arrest a further decline in the price of Lead;  assessed that it had been bought as low, and uncertain that it might not become still lower.    I am etc 	MM   

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