D.^r S.^r/

I this day receiv’d your last Dividends, & take the earliest

Opportunity of sending my Accounts, which I flatter myself

you & the Ladies will find quite right, I also enclose (in the

Accounts) the halves of One hundred Pounds, Twenty five Pounds,

& Twenty Pounds Bank Notes, One hundred & forty five Pounds in all,

& when you return me the Account sign’d as usual, I shall be

oblig’d to you to let me know of their reaching you safe, in order

that I may send you the remaining halves.

The Relief of Gibralter makes many People think We shall

soon have a peace, & tho’ there is not any official Account arriv’d

yet, ‘tis believ’d the Fleets have met & had an Engagement, & that

We have been victorious, a Gentleman of the Court was telling

Me this yesterday, I wish it may be true, a few days will prove it.

I hope the bad season we’ve had has not been very prejudicial

to you, in Wiltshire the Barley is in general very indifferent indeed,

but my Tenants have had better Crops of Hay than for some years

past. M.^rs Cowper begs to joyn in Compliments to you M.^rs Cooke &

Miss Herbert with, D.^r S.^r y.^r most obed.^t Serv.^t
Jn^o Cowper Jun^r

I hope Miss Herbert’s Leg

is quite quite well

N.^o 14. Coney Court

Grays inn

2.^nd Nov^r 1782

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[original hand] M.^r Cooke

Whittleboro’

Towcester

Northamptonshire

[ANNOTATION] From M^r Cowper 2. Nov. 1782

With y^e Answer y^e 5. D^o

Dear Sir/

I this day received your last Dividends, & take the earliest

Opportunity of sending my Accounts, which I flatter myself

you & the Ladies will find quite right, I also enclose (in the

Accounts) the halves of One hundred Pounds, Twenty five Pounds,

& Twenty Pounds Bank Notes, One hundred & forty five Pounds in all,

& when you return me the Account signed as usual, I shall be

obliged to you to let me know of their reaching you safe, in order

that I may send you the remaining halves.

The Relief of Gibraltar makes many People think We shall

soon have a peace, & tho’ there is not any official Account arrived

yet, ‘tis believed the Fleets have met & had an Engagement, & that

We have been victorious, a Gentleman of the Court was telling

Me this yesterday, I wish it may be true, a few days will prove it.

I hope the bad season we’ve had has not been very prejudicial

to you, in Wiltshire the Barley is in general very indifferent indeed,

but my Tenants have had better Crops of Hay than for some years

past. M.^rs Cowper begs to join in Compliments to you M.^rs Cooke &

Miss Herbert with, Dear Sir your most obedient Servant

Jn^o Cowper Jun^r

I hope Miss Herbert’s Leg

is quite quite well

N.^o 14. Coney Court

Grays inn

2.^nd November 1782

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[original hand] M.^r Cooke

Whittleboro’

Towcester

Northamptonshire

[ANNOTATION] From M^r Cowper 2. Nov. 1782

With y^e Answer y^e 5. D^o