From A. Carrighan   Jan.1.1826

Dear H,

a happy new year

I have a note of four lines from a friend, the Visct, without a single promise & and merely stating that it is quite impossible for him to be here tomorrow.

This being the case, letters (of which I have got a parcel from our Master) must be sent up to him, and as our election shop, is, to use a Scottish phrase, only open on lawful days, will you come & hold a council at my rooms this evening (about half past seven) with your Chancery i.e. your books & papers, and over a cup of [illeg.], we may write letters, and [illeg.] concoct a dispatch to the noble Lord to whom I am at any [illeg.] my promise to write. If you fall in with Sedgwick, Lockyer, Duckworth , Dawes, Thanes, [illeg.],and any of our colleagues who think they can help us, will you invite them for me & I shall get out (torn) ask them myself by & by wind and weather premitting. We shall want to [illeg.],and if we are to scribble [illeg.] some paper I find I am rather short of it. [illeg.] ever yours A.Carrighan.

The Master has one vote , I have two to add to our list, but they are not new to you and two refusals