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LETTERS TO AND FROM
FROM MR. CARTER[1].
HENRIETTA STREET, MARCH 11,
SIR,
1735-6.
I WOULD have waited on you, when I sent my servant with a message, but was, informed you did not see company.
I have no doubt the printer will have occasion for a great many cargoes from our friend Mr. Jervas[2].
I am very glad I had an opportunity of doing any thing agreeable to you. I have long wished for some instance of assuring you that I am, with great respect, your most obedient and most humble servant,
DEAR SIR,
MARCH 27, 1736.
I HAD a pleasure and grief at once in your letter, to find you had not forgotten me, and to find you uneasy
- ↑ Mr. Carter was master of the rolls in Ireland.
- ↑ A fine print, engraved by Fourdrinier; from an original picture painted by Jervas, which was afterward purchased by the earl of Chesterfield, and placed in his elegant library at May Fair, in the collection of English authors.
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