[Letter] 1866 April 28,9 Birch Grove, Rusholme, Manchester [to] Frederick Hendricks

           9 Birch Grove
                Rusholme
                     Man
            28 April, 66
My dear Sir
        I have now had 
your tract on Currency 
several days, and must 
express both my thanks 
for it & the pleasure 
with which I have already 
read most of it. As the
subject is one I have not 
studied much as yet I 
shall have to go more 
carefully into it before 
pretending to understand 
the merits of any treatise 
on so complicated subjects. 
Certainly you make a 
more plausible case out 
than I could have expected.
It is really curious how 
easily the coins are made 
commensurable.
   A few points occrur to 
me as likely to involve 
difficulty as for instance 
can one nation trust the 
coinage of another?
   Then again if we are to 
uphold the sovereign as 
our unit through thick 
& thin must we not give 
up the notion of an universal 
currency. This no doubt is 
what you do but supposing 
we gave up the soverign some 
time or other ; & in our 
colonies we have done so 
already, might not the 
dollar have a chance of 
supremacy－any coin
as an universal unit might 
be better than a number 
of units.
   There however are only 
off hand notions & may 
be disfused by a closer 
reading of your tract 
which I hope soon to 
have occasion for.
   Believe me to remain.
     Yours very truly
           W. S. Jevons
Frederick Hendricks, Esqe.