John Silver replies (How could he not?):

Good day to ye, Barrister Eke,

My name be John Silver and I be most keenly interested in your proposal to be progressing my payment to its most satisfactory conclusion. I be a mariner, retired some years now and I be keenly interested in the money.

Please be giving me a few more of the details, the guts and gizzards of the matter, if you see my drift.

Yours most heartily,

John Silver.