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Keremenchuk June 18th OS 1784
May I be not disappointed in the hopes <lb/. I have that you will not fail to come
and see me this year and if possible this
summer. I hope I shall be able to
make you comfortable and you would
make me happy beyond measures
Consider also that in I am now for
the first time engaged in a real business<lb?. on which my reputation will depend,
consider the favourable circumstances
I am in to turn to account my <lb/. different speculations. consider that <lb/. my mind has been unbent from <lb/. business. That I have long been
out of the habit of application.<lb/. consider the weaknes of my memory
and judge yourself of the assistance
you would be of to set me once<lb?. more in the right path.
Take notice that besides Shipbuilding
I have un unlimited field to employ such <lb/. tallents as I either have or may acquire.
The empress <delLwill is expected to embark
at this estate of the p[rince's to descend
from thence down the Dneiper. If my
rowing Yacht is found preferable to those
built by the Admiralty for her, the prince
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will certainly give it for her use.
This will be a flattering way of renewing
the notice She has before honoured
me with. I think therefore if you<lb/. can conveniently that you should stay
with me till that time.
This Estate of the Prince's is called
Kreetchoff it is in the province of White Russia about 100 versts
from Mohilew near the borders
of Poland from which it was separate
in the last division of that Country.
Riga is the nearest port in the
Baltic.
Could I know but more about the time
you could come there, I would meet you
there in at least I think I could, and
if not I would at any rate send somebody
to conduct you. It is less than 600 versts
from Riga to Kreetchoff therefore about
3 days journey at the rate people <lb/. travel here. Vitepsk I believe is about <lb/. 200 verts from Kreetchoff and heavy<lb/. luggage may be transported so far
by water up the Divina.
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