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"It has been my custom to write to you from every seaport on my arrival & previous to my
departure ...."

"My affairs, I must own, seem desperate enough, I shall adjust them as far as in my power, & (after procuring a recommendation & appointment on Ld. Wellingtons or Genl. Grahams supernumerary staff ...."

Further discussion of debts

"The inclosed was brought here this day by two Bailiffs ...."

A third bailiff's notice "stuck up another on the outside of the great Hall Door...."

"I would struggle with every difficulty to keep things together & God knows I have difficulties enough to struggle with besides bad health ...."

"I did not intend to say any thing as I had nothing to say but when inclosing this letter, Hutton the Bailiff and two of his men arrived from Nottingham, how is this?"

"In case Mr Hanson is from home I have only to inform you that Mr Hutton and three of his men are now in the House, and the goods will be sold off immediately, unless I can produce a delay ...."

Very detailed money matters

Catherine Byron's business correspondence with John Hanson, with regard to the Sanders portrait of Byron.