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From: Thomas Sworder, Hertford; To: Benjamin Bennett, Dunstable

28 Jun 1869

From: 1869 To: 1869

From: Thomas Sworder, Hertford; To: B Bennett, Dunstable “I am very sorry you cannot assist me as I very much want to put my second son into a business directly, so that he might be employed up to the time of the expiration of your lease but it is not a Brewery Hs I now want to put him in. It is quite a different Business in London. If there is any surplus the £1100 must come to me and I cannot doubt from the accts you sent me last year there must be a considerable surplus earning to my newphew at the end of the term but even if not, my Bond and the policy on my life would be worth more than 3 times £2000. I shd be glad to make some arrangement about the Brewery and I feel very much annoyed with my nephew for not meeting me last year as he ought to have done but he is as obstinate as a pig and is ready to be advised by anyone but myself. I have not mentioned the subject to him for it will be of no use unless you wd lend me the £2000. He is now at Cottered and if you will not advance me the £2000, it is not worth while mentioning the subject to him. I fear the Brewery is suffering from want of ‘pushing’ and for the high price of Barley and want of Nose[?] at Luton.”

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Sworder, Thomas,
Bennett, Benjamin,
Sworder, Edward Robert

business correspondence, debt, family disputes, Cottered, barley, agricultural prices