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A great deal of business was transacted in this short period A

other items, Messrs Peddle and Pool, solicitors, of Monument Yard, were

instructed by their client Edward Dorrit, Esquire, to address a letter

to Mr Arthur Clennas and eightpence, being the amount of principal and interest

computed at the rate of five per cent per annum, in which their

client believed hi this

communication and remittance, Messrs Peddle and Pool were further

instructed by their client to remind Mr Clennaate-fees) had not been asked of him, and

to inform him that it would not have been accepted if it had been openly

proffered in his name

With which they requested a stareat deal of business had likewise to

be done, within the so-soon-to-be-orphaned Marshalsea, by Mr Dorrit

so long its Father, chiefly arising out of applications ians for sreatest liberality, and with no lack of for

to appoint a tiht wait upon hi him in thehis donation (for he said in every such

case, 'it is a donation, not a loan') with a great deal of good counsel:

to the effect that he, the expiring Father of the Marshalsea, hoped to