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' | <p>Critchoff April 29<hi rend="superscript">th</hi>. 1785 <unclear>OS</unclear>.</p> | ||
<p>I can send you but a few lines now, and what I have chiefly | |||
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to tell you is that Notman is arrived. He has been here | |||
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these 5 or 6 days but I myself was <del>als</del> from home till yesterday. | |||
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He brings me only one or two scraps of letters from you and | |||
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one letter from my father. You must imagine the pleasure | |||
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and delight it gave me to have such fresh certain and | |||
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particular news of you all. When I asked him how | |||
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old he thought my father looked to be; he said about | |||
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sixty. As for you as I think you should give up | |||
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all future <sic>pretentions</sic> <del>to</del>for<!-- "for" over-writes "to" --> becoming Penny Postman | |||
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you might as well be more sedate and <add>not</add> make | |||
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every body run to keep your foot pace. Poor Notman | |||
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complains heavily of the fatigue you made him suffer.</p> | |||
<p>He has brought nobody with him, <unclear>but</unclear> gives me all | |||
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reason to expect his <sic>freinds</sic> every day. As he came from | |||
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Riga by Post he left a chest in which he had the patterns | |||
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of cordage Sailcloth &c to be forwarded by the conveyance | |||
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which brings the other people.</p> | |||
<p>I do not well understand | |||
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<unclear>Debraw's</unclear> letter which accompanied the <sic>razer</sic> but I fear <del>it</del> | |||
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<del>was <gap/></del> that he had little reason to conclude that my Steel</p> | |||
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Critchoff April 29th. 1785 OS.
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 5 or 6 days but I myself was als from home till yesterday.
He brings me only one or two scraps of letters from you and
one letter from my father. You must imagine the pleasure
and delight it gave me to have such fresh certain and
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 pretentions tofor 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.
He has brought nobody with him, but gives me all
reason to expect his freinds 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 razer but I fear it
was that he had little reason to conclude that my Steel
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Identifier: | JB/540/156/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540. |
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1785-04-29 |
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540 |
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156 |
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Correspondence |
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Samuel Bentham |
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