SIR

Yours I received,and am glad to hear that your. parents have enabled you to open a shop for yourself. Your behaviour to your late master was such, that it cannot fail of procuring you many customers, I have sent you the goods by the Stafford Waggon, in twelve parcels;marked XI : and I doubt not but you will be punctual in your returns, which will always enable me to serve you as low as possible, and with the best goods which I ean procure.I heartily wish you success in business,and doubt not but you well know that honesty and assiduity are the most äkely means to insure it; and am,

Your obliged servant.

From «a young man whose master had tately died.