Dear Sir/
Have I, or have I not told you, that
M^r Hotham’s kind present is arrived safe;
But from some fatality or other, (I suspect
ignorance in our method of treating such
trees) both the fruit and flowers fall
off daily -----
I am gong to confide to you a
secret commission, to be kept from
the knowledge of all human eyes
and ears, and Smith’s in particular –
Whilst I was in York, I bespoke a
couple of wigs of a M^r Hands
to cover my bald pate, against
Winter ---- M^r Hands lives in Blake
Street, opposite the Assembly Rooms ,
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and next door to Mr Rhodes’s-------
M^r Hand promised to have them
finished by next Saturday the 21st
you will oblige me by calling upon him
for them – I understand the price
of both Bobs will amount to between
three and four guineas, which you
will be so kind to pay, and take his
receipt; and, whenever you happen
to come this way, deliver them into
my own hands ---- For, whatever I know,
and the Fair Sex may suspect, I
wou’d not have it published in Gath
or ascalon, That I am reduced to a
dry Bob --------
Since my arrival, the Cormorants
have fasten’d their talons upon me ,
and among those birds of prey, no one
has made a deeper impression on
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your liberal allowance than Jacob ----
Dalton, the bricklayer, whose bill amounts to
£72, exclusive of {?Tare} and Trot,
which the Jew never discounts for, nor
accounts for a single Item, when or where
his work was performed – This I hold
to be as great a hardship as the Israelits
were subject to, when Pharoah enjoined
them to make bricks without straw ----
Next week, I shall pay Ed^d Cundell’s
bills, so hold yourself prepared to honour
my draft, which I fear will border on
£200 -------
Though I may appear to laugh and trifle ,
Yet I assure you I am at bottom as
melancholy as a Gibeat, and seldom
laugh but on the wrong side of my mouth
I am with great truth, Dear Sir
yours most sincerely
G Earle
Beningbrough Hall, June 19th – 1806
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M^r Munby
Attorney at Law
York

Dear Sir/
Have I, or have I not told you, that
M^r Hotham’s kind present is arrived safe;
But from some fatality or other, (I suspect
ignorance in our method of treating such
trees) both the fruit and flowers fall
off daily -----
I am gong to confide to you a
secret commission, to be kept from
the knowledge of all human eyes
and ears, and Smith’s in particular –
Whilst I was in York, I bespoke a
couple of wigs of a M^r Hands
to cover my bald pate, against
Winter ---- M^r Hands lives in Blake
Street, opposite the Assembly Rooms ,
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and next door to Mr Rhodes’s-------
M^r Hand promised to have them
finished by next Saturday the 21st
you will oblige me by calling upon him
for them – I understand the price
of both Bobs will amount to between
three and four guineas, which you
will be so kind to pay, and take his
receipt; and, whenever you happen
to come this way, deliver them into
my own hands ---- For, whatever I know,
and the Fair Sex may suspect, I
wou’d not have it published in Gath
or ascalon, That I am reduced to a
dry Bob --------
Since my arrival, the Cormorants
have fasten’d their talons upon me ,
and among those birds of prey, no one
has made a deeper impression on
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your liberal allowance than Jacob ----
Dalton, the bricklayer, whose bill amounts to
£72, exclusive of {?Tare} and Trot,
which the Jew never discounts for, nor
accounts for a single Item, when or where
his work was performed – This I hold
to be as great a hardship as the Israelits
were subject to, when Pharoah enjoined
them to make bricks without straw ----
Next week, I shall pay Ed^d Cundell’s
bills, so hold yourself prepared to honour
my draft, which I fear will border on
£200 -------
Though I may appear to laugh and trifle ,
Yet I assure you I am at bottom as
melancholy as a Gibeat, and seldom
laugh but on the wrong side of my mouth
I am with great truth, Dear Sir
yours most sincerely
G Earle
Beningbrough Hall, June 19th – 1806
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M^r Munby
Attorney at Law
York