Lebanon 7th Ap1 1827.
Dear Sir,
I have been employed by the Administrators of Tobias ... to
collect the debts of that estate, amongst others I find a due bill
against you for $150— with about 4 years interest due thereon. My
clients have requested that I should forward the note to some
person in your neighborhood, but as I knew yourself and no one else
in that quarter, I thought due to old acquaintance to let you know
the claim was in my hands. If you will forward a draft to me or
any person in . . . [illegible] with a request to some friend there to
receive the note and pay the amot I will deliver the note to such
person [upon re]ceiving the money — The Admrs [want] to settle
soon and th[is is] the only claim not in suit — please to favor me
with a reply by return of mail — How stands matters in your
country in a professional way — Do you make fortunes at pleasure
or are you languishing as we are here in the debts of humility Are
you really all Jacksonians or not let me hear from you in regard
to these matters.
Thos. Corwin
Ira Lewis Esq Natches Mississippi
[Addressed:] Ira Lewis Esq Attorney at law Natchez Missisippi.