The name of Hatton has been thrice honored by your bearing of it and I count my niece the most fortunate of women to be your wife.

She and Martha have in a large measure helped to console me for the loss of my dear son.

The third call for recognition is, that I owe you some tangible proof of my gratitude.

Now I have a little money lying idle or nearly so, and if you can spend it in buying cotton, I do not know of any better use it can be put to.

I am sending in this a check on Coutts' Bank for ten thousand pounds.