Nathaniel Wheeler.”
Shortly afterwards: “Please to come up and take a load of pieces the
day after tomorrow. Come thyself and I will be at home. I have some
important business with Thee. Fail not to attend and oblige
Thy Friend
Nathaniel Wheeler.”
The important business about which they were so annoyingly secret was
the merger of the Bristol Cotton Manufacturing Company and the newly
formed and struggling Mount Hope Manufacturing Company.
The barrel has several weave books of these companies and Israel did a
big business with them. Although the following letter would not lead
you to think so.
“Wellington. 9 of the 2 Mo. 1821