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Chit-chat for Bath

Extract of a letter from Baron Raigersfeld Septr 30

" I dare say you know by reputation Mr de Kempelen, Conseiller
"au Gouvernment in Hungaria, or rather the famous Automaton
"Chip-player: he is arrived in London, where he will stay several
"months: He has also brought with him a figure that speaks,
"or to say better the figure is not made yet, but it speaks. The
"chip-player is not to be seen yet, he not having got yet a house
"where to unpack him: but I have heard the speaking automaton,
"of whose contrivance he makes no secret in so far that
"you can see that it is play'd like an organ, altering articulations
"instead of simple sounds. I think nobody ever brought
"it so far, and I can assure you that Mr de Kempelen is a
"gentleman of very good ingenuity and worth your knowing him."

This packet will have been an outrageous long while
a reaching you. It has been retarded by the want first of Carew's letter
which I had hid itself among some other papers in the hurry
of moving; next of a frank  : for some how or other that
which I thought I had is gone; and how or when these
presents will reach you I can not very well tell. I am
Hon:d Sir Ever your's dutifully and affectionately
J.B.

It will depend upon the weight whether I inclose a letter of Sam's by the post, completely
superseded by those others, and the copy he refers to of one of his to Sir James

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Date_1	1783-10-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
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