these Peazas are so cool in Sumer and in Winter break off the storms so much that I think I should not be able to like an house without. I hope you will find it not much addition to the Expence to add them as I have drawn them in the Plan. you will see I have not drawn accurately. the Distanceing of the Post, Windows, etc., I have left to you. you can make them tourn out right. You see I have Drawn the Chinea Clossit Store Room in the east piaza, which containing things the Cold cannot injure, will be better there than in the Kichen, and I suppose not more expencive; and the Pantry I have left in the Kichen a[s] proposed when I was in Boston, Because I can find no other place for it, unless it was put where the Store Room is now, and the store room put out side of that, and the China Clossit as I have dotted in the Plan. the shape will be long but convenient anough and this will make the Pantry warm anough; But you must consult Joy in this. If the Piazas are added 17 should lik to have one window in the best Parlour, and a Door the top of which shall answer to the Window; but when you shove it up so high as to Clear the head (which it may be by opening a way through the plate above it) the part emidately under it shall open like the Lower half of a Shop Door. if you can contrive better, do. the East Peaza need not be sealled at all, but left rough. the foundations is not continued but only Coins at proper distances. I should have the Roof to pitch from under the Arkitraves of the Chamber Windows hipt every way and as flat as possable. I cannot send you the Chinese pattern yet. see what Mr. Joy will expect for this addition of Peazas, and let [him] know I think it cannot be much, becau[se] I would have them done at once, if they wont be Expencive. you need not tell him so; but if £200 Old Tenr1 would do it you

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1 A trifle over £26 sterling. See p. 147 for Mr. Joy's estimate.

migh[t] conclude upon it without my orders. The floor of the Peazas except that next the Kitchen should be Pitch Pine. As to [the] Lawsuit, I must give Putnam 10 Guineas and Otis the same; But if there will be an adjournment dont Guive to Otis. tell him I shall be at home before that time. dont be too Liberal with the Lawyers; they will not do the work one bit the better. as to Pain Consult Mr. Goldthwait. if they are not sattisfied Let them know You are sure your Brother will do what is handsom by them when he returns. I know you are apt to be Liberal, but remember money once gone never returns. Remember Sigorney is to be half. Send by the first oppertunity from Boston 2 half Length Gold frames and 2-14 Cloath frames likewise Gould. I am with Great Effection Your Brother, J. S. COPLEY.

Henry Pelham to Copley

BOSTON, August 15, 1771.

DEAR BROTHER,

The near approach of the Courts sitting, makes me solicitouse about your Law suit. The last Evening, I receiv'd two Letters from Coll. Putnam, in one of which he says:

The superior Court sets at Boston the last Tuesday of this Month; I can't attend on Mr. Copley's Cause that Week, if I could, it is very uncertain whether the Court will sit, to do Buisness at that time: you had better therefore get the Cause put off till the Adjourment in the Fall: When I hope to be better able to attend the Cause than at present. In the meantime I shall take all due Care as far as my health will permitt. PS. If the Cause must come on the first Week of the Courts setting, and can't be delayed let me know, and I will endeavour to attend.

Now what I want, is your most perticular and express Orders, Whether your Cause shall be tryed at the first setting of the Court, or whether it shall be put off till the adjournment [in which Case it] can't be sooner than the middle of November. On the one hand, you will consider the state of your Lawyer's Health; Collo. Putnam you know, is an invalid, and his health is so very precarious, as to render his travelling, in such a season, very difficult; often impossable. Mr Otis, you are likewise sensable, has no certainty of his Health; he is now very well, but how long that may continue, is very uncertain; these Considerations, Operate in favour of its coming on, as soon as possable. On the other hand, if it is put off 'till the adjournment, you will be able to attend the Tryall yourself. You will likewise consider, that if the tryal is put off till November, and anything should prevent its being then tryed, it must go to the spring term, when it is very bad travelling. It has been put off, upon your motion, sundry times already, which should make you cautious of putting it off, when you can bring your Lawyers together with such favourable Circumstances; and the oftener you put it off, the more difficult you may find it, when you have greater Occasion for it. I have just seen Mr. Otis. he says, he is entirely ready for speeking. I shall endeavour to have the action, so ranged as either to have it tryed now, or in November. I imagin you wont need soliciting for an immediate answer to this Letter, when you consider, that if you write by the return of the same post that Carries this, it will be two or three days after the Court opens, before I can receive your Letter. I must therefore intreat, that you will not neglect letting me have an immediate answer. I am just going to write to Coll. Putnam, so have only time to subscribe myself, your loving Brother, HENRY PELHAM.

P. S. We are all well, accept of Love, from our Mamma, Mr. Clarke and Family, Mr. Startin1 and Lady, myself, etc. The same, to my Sister.

Invoice of Merchandise

Invoice of Merchze shipped by Henry and Thos. Bromfield in the Thames Capt. Jno. Derby; on Acco. of Mr. Jno. Singleton Copley; consigned to Mr. Henry Pelham at Boston.

1 Charles Startin, who married Sarah, a sister of Mrs. Copley.

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NEW YORK, August 17, 1771.

Mrs. Copley and myself have this Even'g returned from Mrs. McEvers's at Blooming Dale where we have been two Days. I have been taking her portrait there, and finding Smith sails tomorrow morning I sit up late to write a line to you to let you and our Hond. Mamma know we are well, and have been so ever since we left Boston, which is a great blessing. I have wrote to Brother Jona'n 1 at large and it is now late, so must be very short for we keep good hours. I have not been able to send you the Chineese yet, for I hardly get time to eat my Victuals; but I will send it soon. I forget weither or not there was to be a Clossit in the Keeping Room. if the Clossits are made in the Peaza as proposed in my last Letter so as to be contiguous to the Keeping Room, I would by no means have any by the Chimney. I am likewise determined to have no door into the Kitchen from the Keeping Room. I dined at Mr. Yates's 3 Days ago, where I noticed two such spaces with side boards in them which were very convenient. the Arches were somthing in this maner. I should like to have them left open the same Depth they are now, or if there should be the Clossit in the Peaza, and Jonathan Clarke.

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