“This, you will observe, quite alters arrangements, and I therefore
must request that you make preparations for meeting the two bills
due at the end of this month.... In any event, bear in mind that
you must be prepared to cover your mother’s acceptances for the
£4,000, due at the end of the month.”
On the 6th of October I wrote to him another letter, containing this
passage:--
“I have your note acknowledging receipt by your mother of the
£2,000 acceptance, due the 2d October. Why not let her acknowledge
it herself? You must really not fail to come up at once, if it be
for the purpose of arranging for the payment of the two bills at
the end of the month. Remember, I can make no terms for their
renewal, and they must be paid.”
I had received from Palmer a letter, dated October 5, acknowledging, on
the part of his mother, the receipt of a bill of exchange for £2,000. On
the 10th I wrote to Palmer a letter, from which the following is an
extract:--
“However, not to repeat what I said in my last, but with the view
of pressing on you the remembrance that the two bills due at the
end of this month, the 26th and 27th, must be met, I say no more.
The £2,000 acceptance of your mother, due the 29th of September, I
sent her yesterday. It was renewed by the second of the three sent
me up.”