Letters: William T. Forsyth, 1860: Northumberland, Northumberland County, PA



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Jan 12 1860



Wm Forsyth Esq



Dear Sir,



After the unsatisfactory (?) with you at Reading in reference to closing up 

our old business I mentioned the matter to

charles Pleasants, not professionally, but as a mutual friend, hoping that 

through his advice and assistance, an

arrangement might be effected.  Charles has always understood the position 

of affairs between us, and for this reason a

proper person to consult.  In a late letter Charles suggests as a measure of 

compromise the sum of $2250.  In order to meet

his views of expediency I have sent to you through him a proposition that I 

trust may prove acceptable.  In doing so I have

made concessions that I conscientiously believe to be (?) in (?) of the 

agreement settled on in 1836, $2500 and $1000 of

that in cash.  Any further abatement would be doing injustice to myself and 

family and would be unreasonable and ungenerous

of you to ask, as you profess to be (?) by friendly feeling toward myself.



My first and most ardent desire is to repossess the property according to 

the understanding when it was sold for $200 and

I hope it may suit you to accept my proposal to this effect.  If this should 

be impracticable then I would prefer to have

you keep possession undisturbed.  In this I am sincere, our present business 

relations are known only to ourselves and

Charles Pleasants, and there it is desirable that it should rest.  I have 

never spoken of it to another, not even my own

family.



You charged me at Reading with having sent you a "threatening letter" 

nothing was further from my intention and the letter

will bear no such construction.  I said then, and repeat now, that our 

business ought to be closed up by ourselves (in this

you will certainly agree with me) that if we could not do it, others must do 

it for us.



Respectfully yours,

J.H. cowden