Have just received Raubs’ telegram “Prince & P. will be finished Monday, all complete.”

Now here is my idea:

1. If Patterson has made a good nice job of it, & you believe it can be satisfactorily cast in brass, take it to them Ⓐemendation Boston yourself, immediately, & have it cast in that portion of Boston called Chelsea, in that fancy foundry. Better call on Osgood, first, & have him go with you, so that he can take charge of the casting & finishing & let you go home to New York. Let them keep on casting & recasting till they get it right. Pay what they require.

2. Now a chief reason why I want you to go, is, that you may talk with that foundry & see if they will do other jobs for us, & expeditiously.

3. And another reason is, that if they can’t make this casting, & do it right away, I want you to rush off to Providence with it & make them hurry it up & express it to Osgood.

It is of vast importance that no time be lost—for it might hinder delay the issue of my canvassers’ copies, & cost me several thousand dollars. Consequently, I would a good deal rather hurt your K business a hundred dollars or so by your absence.

I don’t suggest that you go to MunnⒶemendation & Co to find a fine brass man f in N. Y. for this job, th for that would make delay.

Start along, now—either Monday or Monday night.