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Critchoff April 29. 1785. O.S.

I can send you but a few Lines now, and what I have chiefly
to tell you, is that Notman is arrived. he has been here
these five or six Days, but I myself was from here.
He brings me only one or two Scraps of Letters from you,
and one Letter from my Father. You must imagine
the pleasure, & delight it gave me, to have such fresh,
certain & particular News of you all. When I asked
him how old he thought my Father looked to be, he
said about Sixty. — [ as for you, [ as I think, you
should give up all future pretensions to becoming
Penny Postman, you might as well be more sedate
and not make every body run to keep your foot pace]

Poor Notman complains heavily of the fatigue you
made him suffer by making him run to keep up with you in your walks. He has brought nobody with him
but gives me all reason to expect his friends every
day. As he came from Riga by Post he left a
chest in which he had the Patterns of Cordage Sailcloth
&c to be forwarded by the Conveyance which brings
the other People

I do not well understand Debraw's Letter which
accompanied the Rasor, I fear that he had little
reason to conclude that my Steel when Cast would
be better than ordinary Cast Steel. I hope I shall
have talked the matter over with him, and even

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