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(Dated Friday. Probably written about the same time as O.13.1, No. 111.)

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Friday morn[in]g

My Dear Sir!

Let me welcome you home again, & I wish I had better news about myself. Yet, it is not bad, for my affairs are settled; only I know not which way to turn myself, at so critical a moment, & not having been able to see my immediate friends since my arrival, without a little pecuniary aid. If you & Mr Gurney (to whom I did not choose to apply in your absence) c[oul]d assist me, for perhaps a very short time; it w[oul]d be a particular convenience to me, & w[oul]d prevent the settling of my affairs from being almost ineffectual. I sh[oul]d hope to be able to repay it as soon as I got to Town (the middle of next month, when Lady Croft returns out of Cheshire); but, not to engage for more than I am sure of, can you oblige me with £150 till October, when at Michaelmas I am pay’d my midsummer rents? You will show this to Mr G. to whom I have not said a syllable. Such kindness cannot make me more than I am,

My Dear Sir, Your oblig’d friend
H[erber]t Croft.

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Letters omitted from words abbreviated by superscript letters have been supplied in square brackets.

(Published according to Act of Parliament at the Hydrographical Office, Admiralty, and printed at the Admiralty Lithographic Press. The chart shows the region explored by Captain Parry in 1819 and 1820.)

Written on the back of a prospectus from 'The Delphin Classics'

73 Eaton Terrace, S. W. - Would like to have the first edition of FitzGerald's Omar Khayyám, no. 426 in Quaritch's new catalogue, if it is still available. Wished he could have been at Boulge on Saturday [for the planting at FitzGerald's grave of the rose grown from a hip from that at Omar Khayyám's tomb].

21 Parliament Street, London, S. W.

Relates to the Clothworkers' Company.