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J.B. To Mr Fitzherbert Petersburgh by post Crichoff Sept. 14/25 1787
enclosing 1. a letter to Q.S.P. covering one to Mrs B. + 2. another to Mr Abbot.
Sir
Though the principal part of the intelligence contained in the following extract
can be no news to you, yet as an account of those are some of the circumstances it contains
some particulars it contains which may not have come to you through other channels, but
more on account of the relation they bear to a man my Brother in whose fate you take so
kind an interest, I thought it might possibly not prove not unacceptable
to you. It was brought me on the 10/21 instant by an officer of my his Brothers
who left Chersen on the 10/15
I do not know whether I believe you staid long enough to know that an account of
the expence of the Vermicular Barge had been asked for and the money order'd.
You will not look upon it as an event incredible that that order remains still
unexecuted. The express above mentioned took a letter which my Brother says are very pressing letter one to Colonel
Popoff, from whom the money had it been obtained was to have been brought
thither thither where in truth there is no small need of it. None came: but as Popoff was pronounced known to be ill and invisible before
to every body the disappointment is not quite so discouraging as if the letter
had been received by him and either not answered or answered in the negative
The breaking up of all things here affords such an opportunity to any
body who wants a Gardener, as has never yet offer'd itself in Prussia. John Acton
whom I thought myself fortunate to get for my Brother from Scotland at so
low a salary as £80 a year, is nephew and was some years foreman to
Acton the King's Gardener at Kew.
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