Demerara, 25 February 1856

Messrs. Sandbach, Tinne & Co.

Liverpool

Gentlemen,

We have received your esteemed favour of the 16th ult., and our February mail has also arrived; and understanding that our letters of the 9th inst. are now lying in Barbados, we have forwarded duplicates of same per ship Bellona, which sailed this morning for Liverpool.

We will take an early opportunity of speaking to Mr. Vesthuis on the subject of the Herstelling accounts — he is to make a shipment in the following week.

Letters from the former proprietors of Little Diamond and Vryheid’s Lust have been presented to us, instructing us to pass the transfers of the firm estate and to cancel the mortgage on the latter in favour of the present owners — which we are about to do, although you do not mention the subject in any of your letters.

We have had to draw on you this day on Estates Cash Account:

Power P. J. Garrett ………. £50

To H. C. Kennedy ………… £58–7–1

B. G. Barell in London …… £400

Yourselves ………………… £300

Total …………………. £808–7–1

We beg to enclose invoices for January — that of Leonora was inconsistent and had to be returned to the estate. Memorandum of produce &c. shipped for the following stores.

We will draw on yourselves for £300, which please place to our credit and advise.

Please account to Messrs. R. Tennant for £307–5–6, cost of Liverpool 25th June remittance to our debit.

In consequence of the recent disturbances, work on the estates and business in town are almost at a stand still — as regards the former the weather being very dry, there is not much to do — but we fear there will be little business doing, and we shall be serious losers, as the Portuguese were our chief Beer & Butter customers. It will be as much as ever we can do to get the produce away, owing to the shallowness of the Catherina shipping trench, which causes great obstruction of the punts.

I am, Gentlemen,

Your faithful servant,

William Jones