[Baltimore] Janry 4 1775
I have just time to inform You that the Brig Hope is Arrived2 & Also that I shall do My Best to give her dispatch for Dublin tho Wheat Flour & Flaxseed is Scarce & high. Flour 18/ Wheat 7/ Flaxseed 14/ & none of this last Article to be got. I shall write Messrs Robinson & Sandwith soon. I think there is about 12 of the Schooners Servants dead with a Bad fever. there is Also 8 more Yet Sick with flux &c &c. of Course there will not be much made of them I have sold about ½ of What is Alive pretty well but have not raised 200 £ cash the remg half I believe will Sell low & of Course Command no Cash3 of Course What I ship p the Hope I will have to draw on G.D. & Shall Send it to his Address of Which inform him4
1. Mercantile Letter Book of Woolsey and Salmon, Baltimore merchants, LC. Hereafter cited as Woolsey and Salmon Letter Book, LC. As a new member of the firm of Woolsey and Salmon, George Salmon had gone to Europe to "drum up" business.
2. The brig Hope, George Robinson, master, of 105 tons, and a crew of 7, had entered that day frorn Dublin in ballast. Port of Entry Books, 1745-1775, Md. Arch.
3. The schooner Industry, the property of Woolsey and Salmon, had entered in early December 1774, from Dublin with a large number of indentured servants.
4. George Darley, a merchant of Dublin.
