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Linstead near Sittingbourne Oct 6th 1783.
Hon:d Sir
On Wednesday the I received your short
letter in which you desired I wou'd not fail to give you a line
by the return of post to tell you whether you shou'd send P. Carew
the originals or the copies. On that same day I sent an answer
in due time & by the ordinary conveyance, desiring for the reasons
which I then gave that it might be the originals. I was pleasing
myself with the thoughts of the proof you wou'd receive of my
punctuality & my attention to your commands when I learnt first
by your note to my Uncle which Wilson inclosed to me in a
packet, and afterwards by your letter of the 17th last to me, that
that letter of mine had never come to hand. I must leave you
to judge how much I was mortified at this intelligence: how to
account for the fact I know not. I now write for little other
purpose than to enclose two packets of Sam's on which as before
I shall make no comment: only begging you to read them the sheets in
the order in which they lie, in the order of the dates, without which you might lose a good
part of whatever pleasure they may afford. The dates you will find by the endorsements I have made on them. I inclose also a
letter of P. Carew's to me written at a time when being at Plymouth
he had not received the originals of Sam's letters which
Wilson sent to his house in town by my desire.
When you have done with these letters of Sam's, pray send them to
Mr Milford. You will do as you please about sending them or copies of them first
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