Royal Cornwall Gazette, Polkinghorne Letter (14 Dec 1825)

WRESTLING.
To Mr. ABRAHAM CANN, St. Thomas’s, Exeter.
SIR, Although you did not answer mine of Sept. 20th, nor accept the proposals with respect to time, place, and amount of stake——I see yours of the 10th inst., in the Devon Freeholder, dated Dec. 2, wherein you now assert your readiness to try the championship of the two counties; as to your proposals for play, I object to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, and propose to meet you as a man, without the least shadow of animosity, the 4th and 5th are quite right; but should you be inclined to wear a loose jacket, of which I can get no firm hold, something else must be substituted in its place, as the true Cornish hug is sure to follow.
The sum mentioned by you is quite ready, or even that doubled, which my friend or self shall produce, if agreeable to you, at Launceston, Plymouth, Devonport, or Torpoint, (the former for choice) on Easter Tuesday, March 28, next. If these proposals suit you, be good enough to say by return of post, and oblige your obedient servant,
JAMES POLKINGHORNE.
St. Columb, Dec. 14. 1825.

(Published in the Royal Cornwall Gazette, Saturday 24 December 1825)