From L. Sulivan 17 May 1826

My dear Sir

I ought long since to acknowledge the receipt of your letter enclosing the statement respecting the paying the expenses of candidates but I have been till lately been numbed[?] by the illness of some of my family.

As the time of the probable dissolution approaches we are endeavouring to revive our committee proceedings, which have necessarily been sometime at a stand. I am sorry to have an immence mass of unascertained votes. I am sending you the extract of these names - from which we have as positive answer as who seem to have a vote open. Ld P. wishes your committee would put in the margin anything you know opposite the names. There are many corrections that might be made here if we detained the papers for further checking but it is not worthwhile to do this- as you will readily set us right- I send them divided for more easy reference

Most truly yours

Law Sulivan

Be so kind, as you proceed to mark the Inceptors who are put into these lists