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I can only thank in as few words as possible for your very | <p>I can only thank in as few words as possible for your very | ||
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friendly letter - I had no right to expect such attention on your | friendly letter - I had no right to expect such attention on your | ||
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'tis the best I am at present able to make. The account of the | 'tis the best I am at present able to make. The account of the | ||
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expedition for destroying the magazine at <unclear>Peek's</unclear><!-- Peck's? --> hill | expedition for destroying the magazine at <unclear>Peek's</unclear><!-- Peck's? --> hill, about forty | ||
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miles above <add>New</add> York on Hudson's River, is I believe a pretty | |||
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just one; nor do I think what you will find said of the mortality | |||
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in the Rebel army much exaggerated. When you have | |||
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read these papers, send them by the Coach to Chatham - I | |||
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shall send you others by every convenient opportunity; and | |||
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<unclear>when</unclear><!-- where? --> any thing of consequence happens I will endeavour to give | |||
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you some account of it. | |||
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Comp<hi rend="superscript">ts</hi>. to Q.S.P. | |||
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adieu | |||
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<unclear>J</unclear>D.</p> | |||
<p>New York | |||
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1 April 1777.</p> | |||
<p>Tis thought the Rebels will-make a shabby figure the | |||
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ensuing Campaign. Some people offer to lay odds that they will not | |||
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even keep the field: But I am not one of those. The Country people | |||
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come in with their arms and enlist in the new raised Corps very | |||
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fast of late — Send the <sic>inclosed</sic> <sic>Lres</sic> to the Penny Post office.</p> | |||
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I can only thank in as few words as possible for your very
friendly letter - I had no right to expect such attention on your
part; the obligation is therefore the greater - You are the only
person who sends me any Chit-Chat. God bless you for the charitable
act - you are a special good Christian. Accept a
parcel of print for your Manuscript - 'tis a poor return; but
'tis the best I am at present able to make. The account of the
expedition for destroying the magazine at Peek's hill, about forty
miles above New York on Hudson's River, is I believe a pretty
just one; nor do I think what you will find said of the mortality
in the Rebel army much exaggerated. When you have
read these papers, send them by the Coach to Chatham - I
shall send you others by every convenient opportunity; and
when any thing of consequence happens I will endeavour to give
you some account of it.
Compts. to Q.S.P.
adieu
JD.
New York
1 April 1777.
Tis thought the Rebels will-make a shabby figure the
ensuing Campaign. Some people offer to lay odds that they will not
even keep the field: But I am not one of those. The Country people
come in with their arms and enlist in the new raised Corps very
fast of late — Send the inclosed Lres to the Penny Post office.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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