To Mr. J–, Advocate

10/5/1818

Dear Sir,

I received your letter on the 3rd of this month, in which you complain about my excessive level of correspondence with you. You tell me I have a very intelligent attorney with whom I could communicate, and you offer to give me all the information I could desire, if I would come to your house in the morning at 11:00 or in the evening at 4:00. It seems to me, sir, that you could have told me, in your reply, whether or not you had withdrawn all the funds due from the estate of the late Mr. Berbiguier, my uncle, and what the date would be for a final meeting. 

I have told Mr. G– several times that this matter would have been much less unfortunate for me had it been entrusted to hands other than yours. The accounts would have been rendered long ago, and I wouldn’t be reduced to consuming my savings here, in a guesthouse, where I have been kept for six years. 

It seems that, among yourselves, you do not steal food from each other. Instead, you charge for expenses and labor, and that is not amusing to the co-heirs, or to myself, particularly. I ask you to please answer my request categorically, if you wish to put an end to a correspondence which is not to your liking. I do not see the need to come to your house. Like so many visits before, I think it would prove unfruitful. 

With respect,

M.B.