To His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r

Feb^y 10 1754.
My Lord
I do myself the honour to express my gratefulness for the
extreem pleasure I received from being informed of your Ldp's
kind wishes toward me & to acquaint your Ldp with the
decease of M^r Young one of the Iudges of the Land Office
which Accident I thought had given me an opportunity of
serving two of the Gentⁿ to whom your Ldp's Recommenda-
tion as well as my own inclination obliged me to give the
preference As soon as M^r Young's growing indisposition
deprived us of all hopes of his Recovery I made the proposal
to M^r Calvert of succeeding him, not imagining He would
have been at all averse to dividing the Office w^th M^r Steuart who
on account of the other ludges incapacity to attend has hitherto
Transacted the whole Business for the consideration of one
Third of the Income. Such an increase of his Profits in the
Land Office I thought would be some reward for his faithfull
Services & make him readily resign a Place which He has
enjoyed in the Paper Currency Office of 80£ p Ann. With
which I intended to make some Provision for M^r Young's Son
whose name your Ldp was pleased to insert among those
Gentⁿ who are favored with a particular Recommendation, but

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

10 ^th of Feb^y 1754. transmitted by Capt: Etherington
Sir
To prevent any ill consequence that might be occasioned by
the miscarriage of some Letters to you dated in Dec^r I have