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BL Add. MS 28268, ff. 53–54; extract published in Hart, p. 10
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I forgot to indorse the Bill untill after it was gone, and so made a botch of it. I have no immediate convenience
of cashing it here, so send it again to you. I yesterday sought after purple trimings at the warehouse where they are made, but it
happen'd unfortunately they had none of that colour of any kind I then search'd the shoemakers' windows, but could find every sort
but the right. I was too poorly to walk far, so reluctantly gave it up, I know not what you must say to your customers but a
quill'd Riband White, or a white Rose is very common for that colour, and looks well. I could not see after your skins till
further leisure. I send you ½ Dozn of shoes for your window (if you think propper), We will recon them at 4s 9d pr pair, one with
the other. They will require to be put on a last to bring them into shape. Send me the £30 pound as soon as possible. Isaac was here this morning, they are all well but James, who has got the whooping cough, their shop promise very fair for trade, I
hope it will do. Yesterday in consequence of my letter to the Duke the
preceeding day, a servant mounted brought me a kind letter from his Grace with his approbation of Walter and Jane.
The Georgicks with all its beauties is allmost a bawdy story — I will soon send you Wordsworth's poems, if there is no poetry
in them I will give up my pretension to feeling and Nature.