JB/009/093/001

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to Miss Vernon Lord Landsdowne Decr 1791 +

Since my arrival at my "Villa", a subject on which
the public prints have been scandalously silent / I have
been honoured with two instances of your Lordships
kind attention. In the first I am told that "All
Bowood desire to be remembered by me: "as if any
part of Bowood could ever cease to be remembered
by me, which gratitude, or any quality I could
ever value myself on, remained in one. In the
latter I am informed that my "Bowood friends"
are impatient to know how my hand does "These
reproaches, for not writing, as they might seem if literally taken
may, for not writing, I think, upon the fairest
and least flattering interpretation be construed
with a permission to write. In this light I avail
myself of them: for without some especial
warrant, my Lord, I should hardly have ventured
to give you any trouble with my pen, in addition
to the unconscionable load which particular circumstances,
and the kind injunctions on you Lordships

+ I think you will find this Letter in the first parcel of Miss.
you sent to me

Identifier: | JB/009/093/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 9.
Date_1	1791-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	093	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
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Notes public	incomplete draft of letter 825, vol. 4; printed in bowring, x, 270-271	ID Number	57874999
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