| Description | Letter rejecting proposals by Mr Munro of sharing the profits of Sir Lawrence's contract
'At present I have undertaken a concern where my whole fortune is embarked, the success of whcih appears to me extremely uncertain and if it turns out in any shape to my advantage it must be owing to the knowledge I have acquired in that business of 15 years practice. Mr Munro who can neither advance anything to help carrying on this affair nor does he know anything of the business, thinks from the assistance he gave me with his patron that he must in case I get anything have a respectable part of it and if I should lose my fortune and be ruined - in which there is not two to one on my side - he is just where he was...' |