D.^r S.^r/

I take the earliest Opportunity of sending my Accounts after

Receipt of your last Dividends, & enclos’d in Them herewith, you

also receive the halves of £100. £20. &£15 Bank Notes, One

Hundred & Thirty five Pounds in all, & I shall be glad to hear of

their all reaching you safe at the same time you return Me one of

the Accounts sign’d by yourself & the Ladies as usual; when I will

immediately send the remaining halves of the Notes – I hope We

shall now have some fine & settled Weather for it has been a most

severe Winter – When the Parliament meets ‘tis to be hop’d public

affairs will go on better than of late, & that Stocks will rise to the

Price They ought to be. Notwithstanding the Advertisements ‘tis

much doubted whether there will be a Scrutiny for Westminster,

as ‘twould be attended with so considerable an Expence. I hope you

are perfectly recover’d & that your Breath is much better than twas.

M^rs Cowper desires her Compliments to you, & joyns in the same with

Me to M.^rs Cooke & Miss Herbert, whom I hope enjoy their Health

& I remain

D.^r S.^r your most obed.^t hble Serv^t

Jn^o Cowper

N.^o 14 Coney Court

Grays inn

8^th May 1784

Dear Sir/

I take the earliest Opportunity of sending my Accounts after

Receipt of your last Dividends, & enclosed in Them herewith, you

also receive the halves of £100. £20. &£15 Bank Notes, One

Hundred & Thirty five Pounds in all, & I shall be glad to hear of

their all reaching you safe at the same time you return Me one of

the Accounts signed by yourself & the Ladies as usual; when I will

immediately send the remaining halves of the Notes – I hope We

shall now have some fine & settled Weather for it has been a most

severe Winter – When the Parliament meets ‘tis to be hoped public

affairs will go on better than of late, & that Stocks will rise to the

Price They ought to be. Notwithstanding the Advertisements ‘tis

much doubted whether there will be a Scrutiny for Westminster,

as ‘twould be attended with so considerable an Expense. I hope you

are perfectly recovered & that your Breath is much better than twas.

M^rs Cowper desires her Compliments to you, & joins in the same with

Me to M.^rs Cooke & Miss Herbert, whom I hope enjoy their Health

& I remain

Dear Sir your most obedient humble Servant

Jn^o Cowper

N.^o 14 Coney Court

Grays inn

8^th May 1784