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I write this to beg the favour of you to send me a | <p>I write this to beg the favour of you to send me a | ||
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copy of the translation of the <foreign>Abbé</foreign> Spalanzani's works, lately | copy of the translation of the <foreign>Abbé</foreign> Spalanzani's works, lately pub<lb/> | ||
<lb/> | lished — you may get it on my account of M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> <unclear>Wheeldon</unclear> Bookseller | ||
— you may get it on my account of M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> <unclear>Wheeldon</unclear> Bookseller | |||
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in Fleet Street — Let it be sent to Mess:<hi rend="superscript">rs</hi> Cazalet Merchants <add>in London</add> whose | in Fleet Street — Let it be sent to Mess:<hi rend="superscript">rs</hi> Cazalet Merchants <add>in London</add> whose | ||
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address I cannot give you, but as they are people of great eminence | address I cannot give you, but as they are people of great eminence | ||
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you will easily find them by a Directory. | you will easily find them by a Directory. Let it be put up in | ||
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two covers: the innermost directed "To his Excellency Sir Rob. | |||
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"Ainslie Ambassador <unclear>for</unclear> his Britannic Majesty to the Ottoman | |||
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"<unclear>Port</unclear> Constantinople" — The outermost "To Anthony Hayes Esq.<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> | |||
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"his Britannic Majesty's Consul at Smyrna" - and on one side | |||
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"To the care of Mess:<hi rend="superscript">rs</hi> Cazalet by the earliest conveyance". Let it | |||
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be bound and <sic>letter'd</sic> if there are any copies to be had in that condition | |||
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time enough: if not, in boards.</p> | |||
<p>I expect to set off from hence for Russia by land on Wednesday | |||
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next Dec:<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> 7. We take advantage of the departure of a Moldavian | |||
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Princess, sister to the reigning Prince for Jassi his capital. The Am- | |||
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bassador has had the goodness to introduce us to her Highness for that pur- | |||
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She has an escort of twenty of her Brother's horse who came | |||
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here to <sic>convoy</sic> his tribute to the Porte: a protection without which it | |||
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would be altogether unsafe to travel that route unless it were with a | |||
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Courier whose pace would be too quick to be supportable to any body <add>not</add></p> | |||
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Constantinople Dec:r 4. 1785
Sir
I write this to beg the favour of you to send me a
copy of the translation of the Abbé Spalanzani's works, lately pub
lished — you may get it on my account of Mr Wheeldon Bookseller
in Fleet Street — Let it be sent to Mess:rs Cazalet Merchants in London whose
address I cannot give you, but as they are people of great eminence
you will easily find them by a Directory. Let it be put up in
two covers: the innermost directed "To his Excellency Sir Rob.
"Ainslie Ambassador for his Britannic Majesty to the Ottoman
"Port Constantinople" — The outermost "To Anthony Hayes Esq.r
"his Britannic Majesty's Consul at Smyrna" - and on one side
"To the care of Mess:rs Cazalet by the earliest conveyance". Let it
be bound and letter'd if there are any copies to be had in that condition
time enough: if not, in boards.
I expect to set off from hence for Russia by land on Wednesday
next Dec:r 7. We take advantage of the departure of a Moldavian
Princess, sister to the reigning Prince for Jassi his capital. The Am-
bassador has had the goodness to introduce us to her Highness for that pur-
pose.
She has an escort of twenty of her Brother's horse who came
here to convoy his tribute to the Porte: a protection without which it
would be altogether unsafe to travel that route unless it were with a
Courier whose pace would be too quick to be supportable to any body not
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