William L. Fisher to Thomas Rotch, Wakefield, 4mo 17th 1819

              A-166-2
                     Wakefield 4 mo 17, 1819
  Dear Uncle, 
         I rec'd a few days ago thy letter
  of the 3 Mo - There are occasionally offering for
  employment persons pretending great knowledge
  in the wollen business as overseers, but it is very
  hazardous having any thing to do with them
  on the other hand there are many who are
  pretty well known who are steady & who
  know their own branch of it well, but
  who are deficient in general knowledge-
  Jess Youge is still my partner, he works
  steadily himself,and attends to every part till
  the cloth is wove, when it passes into
  other hands - There are a valuable
  description of people in England who
  are in the habit of either buying their own
  wool, getting it Roped or Slubed, and by themselves
  & families doing the Spinning & weaving
  at their own houses & then selling the
  cloth in is raw state, or doing the same