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Linstead near Sittingbourne Oct 6 th 1783
Linstead near Sittingbourne Oct 6 th 1783.

Hon: d Sir

On Wednesday the I received your short letter in which you desired

I wou'd not fail to give you a line by the return of post to

tell you whether you shou'd send P. Carew the originals or the

copies. On that same day I sent an answer in due time & by the ordinary

conveyance, desiring for the reasons which I then gave that it might be the

originals. I was pleasing myself with the thoughts of the proof you

wou'd receive of my punctuality & my attention to your

commands when I learnt first by your note to my Uncle which Wilson

inclosed to me in a packet, and afterwards by your letter of

the 17 th last to me, that that letter of mine

had never come to hand. I must leave you to judge how much I

was mortified at this intelligence: how to account for the

fact I know not. I now write for little other purpose

than to enclose two packets of Sam's on which as before I shall make no

comment: only begging you to read

the sheets in

in the order of the dates, without which you might

lose a good part of whatever pleasure they may afford. The dates you

will find by the endorsements I have made on them. I

inclose also a letter of P. Carew's to me written at a time

when being at Plymouth he had not received the originals of Sam's letters

which Wilson sent to his house in town by my desire.

When you have done with these letters of Sam's, pray send them to M r Milford. You will do as you please about sending

them or copies of them first
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