leave to
acquaint the Court that I have a house established in New
York, under the firm of Pigou & Booth, and I humbly solicit
the favor of that house having a share of the consignments.

Philadelphia being also a port to which the Company will
most likely send teas, I beg leave to recommend Messrs.
James & Drinker, of that city, to be one of your agents
there.

Should I be so happy to succeed in my request, I am certain
the greatest attention will be paid by those gentlemen to
the Company's orders, and that the Company's interest will
be made their study in the sales and remittances. I also beg
leave to observe that if ships should be wanted for this
service, I have vessels now ready for the ports of
Philadelphia and New York.

I am, gentlemen,
Your most obed't & very humble serv't,
FRED'K PIGOU, Jun^r.
Mark Lane, 1st June, 1773.

To the Hon'ble the Court of Directors
of the United East India Company.

LETTER FROM MR. JONATHAN CLARKE.

London, 1st July, 1773.

Gentlemen:

I intended to have made a purchase of teas at your present
sale to have exported to America, but the candid intimation
given by you of an intention to export them to the Colonies
on account of the Company, renders it disadvantageous for a
single house to engage in that article.

I now beg leave, gentlemen, to make a tender to you of the
services of a house in which I am a partner, Richard Clarke
and Sons,[29] of Boston, New England, to conduct the sale of
such teas as you may send to that part of America, in
conjunction with any other houses you may think proper to
entrust with this concern; altho' I have not the honor of
being personally known to many of you, I flatter myself our
house is known to the principal merchants who deal to our
Province, and are known to have always fulfilled our
engagements with punctuality & honor, and trust I shall
procure you ample security for our conducting this business,
agreeable to the direction, we may from time to time receive
from you.

In soliciting this favor, I beg leave to avail myself
further of the circumstance of our having for a long time
been concerned in the tea trade, and to greater extent than
any house in our Pr