JB/539/390/001

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Sir

Understanding how much you were offended at my behaviour on
the day of your public breakfast, my intention was at first to have waited
on you for the purpose of explaining how it happened that I could be
guilty of such an impropriety; but as I since have learnt that I have
reason to fear the not finding admittance at your house, I take the
liberty of writing to you on the Subject.

I am highly sensible that I cannot have the least grounds to complain
Sir, of any injustice towards me in your resenting in this manner
my misbehaviour at your house; for however far I might be from apprehending
the putting you in such a disagreeable situation with respect
to the Marshal's Lady, the event was such as cannot but render me
in the highest degree culpable in your eyes.

On the morning before, when you were so kind as to invite me to your
public breakfast, I certainly did decline the Invitation as positively as
I could do: but the assurances I had received from Countess Matushkin
that she should not be permitted to come there, joined to the representations
of which some of my friends made me that my not appearing
at your house on an occasion when all the English were invited, would most
inevitably be construed attributed to your not having given me permission, and

Identifier: | JB/539/390/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1783-08-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
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Folio number	390	Info in main headings field
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