This news will, I know, gratify my dear mother and you, who have been a second mother to me all my life.
"When I was last at home, I remember you consulted me as to the best mode of laying out a sum of money which was lying useless in your banker's hands.

I have since lost no opportunity of gaining what information I could: and situated here as I am, in the very midst of affairs, I believe, although very young, I am as good a person to apply to as many others of greater age and standing.
"I frequently thought of mentioning to you our Association, but feelings of delicacy prevented me from doing so.

I did not wish that anyone should suppose that a shadow of self-interest could move me in any way.
"But I believe, without any sort of doubt, that the West Diddlesex Association offers the best security that you can expect for your capital, and, at the same time, the highest interest you can anywhere procure.
"The situation of the Company, as I have it from _the very best authority_ (underline that), is as follows:-- "The subscribed and _bona fide_ capital is FIVE MILLIONS STERLING.
"The body of directors you know.

Suffice it to say that the managing director is John Brough, Esq., of the firm of Brough and Hoff, a Member of Parliament, and a man as well known as Mr.Rothschild in the City of London.

His private fortune, I know for a fact, amounts to half a million; and the last dividends paid to the shareholders of the I.W.