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RJ returned to work and found a letter from Mr J. G. Marshall dated August 9th proposing as RJ wished that 'all your securities should be lodged together either at his bankers or mine (his by all means) and that the Trustees should execute a general power to you to receive all dividends etc'. Marshall is wrong in supposing that 1000 pounds from the Great Western is in his hands - 'It is at my Bankers that is the guaranteed shares bought but in the name of the Trustees not mine'. RJ will arrange for it to be put in one Power of Attorney. WW's securities of 1500 pounds should also be included in the Power of Attorney.

Scotsbrig, Ecclefechan. - Spedding has been unwell, 'even dangerously so', but is now out of danger; has not heard directly from him, but from 'Marshall of Leeds, his neighbour in the North Country, and a sure hand'. Has been travelling in Derbyshire, Airedale, and Manchester before coming to Scotland; has seen the grave of Richard Arkwright and 'the earliest Cotton-Mill in the world'; could not find Brindley's baptismal register and birthplace, 'no man had ever heard of Brindley, his place knew him not'. At Manchester saw 'Ex-Quaker Bright the Member, and Bamford the Radical'