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1830 July 24
Je Be to Jo Bo

of one of these Commissioners presents itself to
his mind as being on his part a not-altogether-undesirable
one: could he have mustered up magnanimity
enough to confess to me that this was his object
and to ask for my consent to his utter silence as to
every thing I had ever done in relation to the
filled in question the effect would of course
been an object of regret to me but the present
of mind of the author would not have been
the source of any such unpleasant feeling as
above — s it is the instructions I have been
giving to Arthur in relation to Joseph Parks is
as follows: — The next time he comes & asks
for me about me to inform him that there is
no such person in existence nor has
been — and for proof to refer him to the whole
tenor of his Preface & in particular the last
sentence in it — that true it is that in the
neighbourhood a notion of the existence so
named has been pretty extensively prevalent
but that it is a vulgar error & that as among
the ancient Greeks & Romans the
notions about the existence of the heathen
God Goddesses Satyrs Nymphs & so forth
was not any sufficient proof of the existence
of any of those supposed beings so neither
is it in the case of the being in question —
If the course taken by him in consequence is
that of taking it for a joke & insisting on seeing
me then to say to him that two years ago or
thereabouts be undertook to procure the re-printing
of my Judicial Establishment clear
of expense to me which promise has since
then been several times repeated: that

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