With this you will receive two copies of the Statement which I submit in applying for assistance, to enable me to open this place, in conjunction with my family, as a Coffee House. The last paragraph relates the immediate exigency – there might be a few words in it underlined with a view to impress the fact that, with the means sought the business might instantly commence. I have omitted this marking however, for why should “pepper be added to cayenne”? Besides, your “words that burn” will do more in such a matter than anything I could write however marked – and so I would add of Colonel Jones to whose kindness in behalf of Matilda I am so greatly indebted. She will be a chief officer here, in conjunction with another of my daughters. My wife will be manager of the “Sleeping Lodgings.”
You have also Mr Sedgwick’s “word of Remark” on Sir Charles Wetherall’s Speech – the part I would particularly direct your attention to is from p. 40 “On defending the Liberty of the Press” &c, to “The End,” on Mr. Bentham’s “Safety Lamp.”2 I do not remember to have seen so comprehensive an eulogism on Mr Bentham’s labours.
Further you have, in return for Mr [illegible] “Address,” a copy of the Life of William Hutton of Birmingham. This is my contribution to the library of the Institution at Manchester – my friend Fry will send you a book on his own account – as soon as I can get afloat, which, with your assistance, I hope to do, I will turn to in our friend Hardy’s affair, & assuredly shall compel several hands to open into your Treasury.