N.P. and J. Atkinson letter to Thomas Rotch, Wheeling, November 8, 1819

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                    Wheeling Nov 8, 1819
  Friend Rotch
           We are really sorry to trouble
  you with so many letters but 28 days have
  passed since your letter was dated informing
  us that you would send our cloth from Phila
  to Steubenville. We have promised a good many
  cloths to a circle of people who will hereafter
  use domestic all together if we don't disappoint
  them as we frequently have. Moreover this is
  the very season for the sale of cloth & we have
  had to buy and are now selling British cloth
  to meet our promises. Will you be pleased
  to take our case into consideration? We have
  also our ware house ready to recieve goods & 
  wish [illegible] we do advertize (which we are waiting
  to do for the want of cloth) that we have on hand
  a general assortment of cloth of domestic origin
  cotton & woolen, wholesale & retail - that Western
                              without going to England
  [illegible] can be supplied here^ in quantity,
  quality & price to suit any market. We wish also
  to get supplied with cloth manufactured this side of the