we have to received the carpets you sent but we find that
they are not in any way up to the sample on which we ordered on the tenth of last month, and in consequence we must decline to accept them at the price invoiced
we could not dispose of them in this neighbourhood expect at s loss, we are holding them until we hear from you.
if you care to make a reduction in the prices, we will go into the matter again, but falling to do so, we must return the carpets.
Yours faithfully