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"Yours arrived on the first Inst. it tells me I am ruined."

"The Bearer of this, William Fletcher, has lived with me some years and served me very faithfully ...."

"My affairs, I must own, seem desperate enough, I shall adjust them as far as in my power, & (after procuring a recommendation & appointment on Ld. Wellingtons or Genl. Grahams supernumerary staff ...."

"As I have just received a firman enabling {me} to proceed to Ægypt & Syria, I shall not return to England before I have visited Jerusalem & Grand Cairo."

"I have written my negative to your proposal on the subject of Newstead, by my servant Fletcher, which I presume is delivered by this time, and I write now for the purpose of repeating it. – will not sell Newstead, come what may! – – –"

"On this day fifteen months ago I sailed from England, and since that period I have not been favoured with the slightest intimation from you or any of your family."

"This letter will be delivered by Mr. Hobhouse ...."

"I wrote to you the other day but another conveyance offering, I shall trouble you once more in
hopes of at least extorting a reply."

"It has been my custom to write to you from every seaport on my arrival & previous to my
departure ...."

"I have no redress but to write again [regarding remittances], & again, a merry task to one, who hates writing as I do."