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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 published | copy of the translation of the <foreign>Abbé</foreign> Spalanzani's works, lately published | ||
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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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"<unclear>Porte</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 Ambassador | |||
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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 published
— 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
"Porte 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 Ambassador
has had the goodness to introduce us to her Highness for that purpose.
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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