LaSalle County

Mr T.A. Sherwood

I Jy }-l)r,1/1) De~r Sir Yours of ~he 23rd~, in due time but Mr Boyd was absent frpm the city a del y of pne day or so the result Mr Anthony not co~c1ude to take it you may go/on and sell it I dont care who has it all I want is the thing arranged with the parties holding it or the money·-I notice the interest in Henry Purdys I nbte of $600 was due on the first day of June Has he been in to see about it/, if not perhaps you had better write to him. I am a little surprized that O e Everson has not been in I would record the mortgage

In regard to the Cuddeback matter if you think it will do you may go on and sell and try the thing /on it certainly will not get in any better shape by remaining as it is and Mr uuddeback seems perfectly indifferent in regard to it or he would have taken Jhe trouble to have called at the time he was in with Adair. I send you an I [agle in which in which you will find your card

Alson Ward .

TA Sherwood Esq

Dear Si~ Your f~vor of the i8 at hand As regards the Adair matter I approve buying the claims providing we can get a new clean paper fr.om Adair on four or fi;ve years time with the condition that the whole becomes due in defalt of the yearly interest. Tell Mr Adair all I want is the interest promptly paid and the time can be extended without doubt. In regard to the money to make the purchase I have no ready cash on hand to send you unless I borrow the same. If you particularly need the money for the above repose before the first of December you may draw on me at three days sight or write me if time will permit and I will forward it to you. As regards the Warren Moore matter I presumelit would be the best thing I could do to pay the mortgage held by Mr Antho~y as I have not just now the money and you are at head quarters to see~-~ that there is no advantage taken I do not see - -1 the necessity of buying it onry to get it in a first mortgage and consequently in a better shape should it be sold by virtue of first mortgage then we can buy it if it i becomes necessarj but is it not just as well as it is as long as it remains and the interes~ is paid. There may be something I do not understand in regard to it if so write to me

I am expecting to come to the west about the first of December and I will come to Ottawa I may have some money or may not as things are rather 1 uncertain I cannot depen:li,on ~hat I aught to receive. Mr Wiltsie wants the interest on the Ahern paper and he must pay it this fall as he promised us 'this spring he would by the first of September Archabald McDougal promised to pay something this fa 11 pl:ease try and see him or write a line on the subject How is Edwin getting aldng Should you collect from 1Ahern his interest you may retain the money and any other you may get to apply on the ·Adair matter and I will pay Mr Wiltsie and send his receipt of the money from Ahern I will see that the notes of Harvey Burr are in your hands by the 3 December the time they are due

Alson Ward .