James Townson Letters

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"... I find you have succeeded in the sale of the Chiswick Estate and thereby relieved the proprietors of an incubus which must otherwise have continued to annoy them but I must confess my astonishment at no mention in your arrangements for extinguishing my claim existing since 1843 under circumstances which I think called to attention ... I have a lien on the property as well as a judgment on the debt against all the parties ... I consented to allow my debt to remain in abeyance for a short time ... As this is a matter of business I hope the proprietors will do me the justice to acknowledge I have been guided by a spirit which has no existence on their part ... in all their arrangements there is not the courtesy even to ask me to wait ... I am not even thought of although the money was advanced by me in 1843 ... how cavalierly I have been treated ..."

30. Kingston, January 7, 1846, 1 page " ... the pleasure of knowing there really was no deviation from what I had a right to expect in your arrangements respecting the sale of Chiswick ... I must be patient and wait for my money ... leavign me without a farthing ..."

31. Kingston, September 7, 1846, 1 page

"We have had a great deal of sickness in our Island which I have partaken of my share ... This unfortunate occurence is a cause of general grief and will be the cause of a little more trouble in the Chiswick affair ..."

32. Kingston, September 22, 1846, 1 page

"About problems with selling the Estate. " ... The Government fixed the ruin to our Colonial empire, neither Trinidad, Demarara or Jamaica have any free population to the extent of reducing wages to any thing like what they are in the slave colonies. Therefore a farce to talk of free labour being cheaper than Slave labour when free labour is not to be had in the British colonies as Slave labour to be had in the foreign but surely such a monstrous doctrine has given additional impulse to slavery after a sacrifice made to get rid of it by Great Britain never can be tolerated by a thinking people ..."

33. Kingston, October 8, 1846. 1 page

"The death of Mr. George Wright on the fourth from apoplexy is of too much consequence for you not to know it as early as possible.