Content Description | Did not receive Mr Barkley's letter which he had said he had written to him about the 'Trustee's Observations'; before the death of Barkley's father, Marriot had wanted his accounts passed, but illness prevented Barkley's father from doing so; after he died, Marriot repeated to Barkley that he would like the accounts passed by the trustees; Barkley had assured him in a letter of 16 November 1752 that the accounts would be given to the trustees the following week; Marriot again reminded him in Spring of 1753 about the accounts; quotes the letter Barkley wrote back which argues that the trustees had passed Marriot's accounts long ago and promised that they and the trustees' observations would be returned to Marriot; Marriot again wrote to Barkley a month later having received nothing. |