James Sykes, Arundel Street, London, to Maria Grace Saffery, Exeter Street, Salisbury, [Monday], 16 September 1799.
London, Arundel Street
16 Septem 99
Madam,
I am favored with your Letter, and agreeable to your desire send on the < > a Copy of your Account Balance < > you Seven Shillings & Sixpence, which I hope will be found correct – The present authority will be sufficient for my receiving the Interest or Dividends on the £1000 – 3 pcents Consols standing in the name of Miss Maria G. Andrews, but by a line Mr Saffery writes on the back of your letter he wishes it may be transferred into his own Name, which I think may be proper to have done, and if you have no objection & I comprehend him right, will on hearing from you procure the necessary powers from the Bank,
Wishing you Health & Happiness, I am
Madam
Your most obedient Servt
James Sykes
When you see your Sister offer my good wishes to her
Mrs Saffery
On the back is this statement by Sykes:
The Estate of the late Mr Samuel Harding
£ s d
1798 June 22. To Miss Anne Andrews Bill to Edwd Steven 20..0.0.
Octr 19 To Miss Maria G Andrews Bill to ditto 10..0.0
30..0.0
1799 Sepr 9 To balance due to the Estate of the late
Mr Samuel Harding – Carried to the account
Credit of Mrs Saffery below
late Andrews 0..15.0
£30..15.0
Dr Miss Maria G Andrews
1798 Decr 14 To your Bill to M. Seeley 15..0.0
1799 Augt 9 To do P. Whitaker 15..0.0
28 To do ditto 15..0.0
To Bank Power of Attorney for Dividends
3 pr Cents 0..11.6
To Postage of Letters 0.. 2. 0
£45..13..6
Account Current with James Sykes
£ s d
1798 May 25 By balance on Account of this date 30.15..0
Her Account Current with James Sykes
1799 January 15 By dividend on £1000 3 pr Cents Consd
£ £ s d £ s d
to Midsummr 1798 15
to Xmas 1798 15 30..0.0
July 13 By ditto to Midsummr 1799 15..0.0
45..0.0
abate Commissn 1 P Cent 0..9.0
44.11.0
Sepr 9 By Balance of the late
Mr Saml Hardings Acct 15.0
45..6.0
By Balance due from Miss Maria
G. Andrews carried to new Acct 0..7.6
£45.13.6
Text: Timothy Whelan, gen. ed., Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vol. 6, pp. 168-69 (annotated version); Saffery/Whitaker Papers, acc. 142, I.A.22.(a.), Angus Library. Address: Revd Mr Saffery | Sarum | Wilts. Sykes was a friend of the Andrewses and appears in several letters that passed between the two sisters.