Hand the check & bill to Newman & get a receipt to date if you can: . His man has been up & straightened out our bells—but he it was who tangled them; therefore I don’t wish to pay anything for the untangling. In this check for $18.95 I am actually paying Newman for tangling the bells—& for keeping them tangled 2 months.

Hold on——why is he charging me 18 hours time? That is nonsense. He was to attend to this house whenever he was sending a man to Hartford. The man was never to come specially. What I really owe is “Expenses $4” & about three hours time. See what he says to that.

I like your circular first rate.

I’ll enclose that oath in another envelop—am going down town this afternoon.

closing paragraph and signature written over the following, which appears upside down:

W H Daggett (awnings

71 Asylum