Dear Sir
Knowles’s horses are not only ill-matched and unsightly, but one of them (I believe the new horse) is off his food, and seems ill ------ I therefore send them back this day by Thomas Joy, and must request you to pacify Old Knowles & his son, who, as I observed to you once before, I still hold to be a compound of knavery and folly --------
Thomas Joy informs me, one Watson of York has horses that will answer my purpose, and ready to come here at a few hours notice; and so sanguine is Thomas in that opinion, that with you to back him, he is cock-sure of carrying {^his} point this very day ------ However, I am not pressed
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in point of time ----- Mrs Earle will not want the horses, (supposing they cannot come sooner) before Friday next the 20^th; and flatters herself she shall compromise matters with her confessor, Mr Allen, for neglecting her religious duties tomorrow at Newton ------ I find the House and gardens as gay and fascinating as your described them; but the fruit of most sorts less abundant than the vivid imagination {^of Urquhart} had depicted them to me ------- I am not surprised at his poetical flight of fancy, the promises of all Gardens being made of puff {?paste/poste} -------
I send you my account-book, to settle at your leisure ----- we are forming schemes to plunder Mr Hotham of his beautiful China Orange tree early in the next week; and are forming more plans for its safe arrival than Jason did to bring home the golden fleece ---- at last, I fancy it will set out from York in a boat hired on purpose, with Urquhart or one of his aide-deCamps to escort it ------
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I have hitherto experienced little benefit from change of air and exercise ----- I eat little and sleep less; which with incessant coughing at night, gives {^me} the air of a rake just escaped from a salivation ------ I consider it as peculiarly hard upon me, to suffer the imputation of a {?Cep} without having tasted the sweets that precede it ------- with Mrs Earle’s warmest wishes for yourself and family, I am, Dear Sir,
yours most sincerely,
G Ea
Beningbrough Hall
Saturday, June 14^th 1806

Dear Sir
Knowles’s horses are not only ill-matched and unsightly, but one of them (I believe the new horse) is off his food, and seems ill ------ I therefore send them back this day by Thomas Joy, and must request you to pacify Old Knowles & his son, who, as I observed to you once before, I still hold to be a compound of knavery and folly --------
Thomas Joy informs me, one Watson of York has horses that will answer my purpose, and ready to come here at a few hours notice; and so sanguine is Thomas in that opinion, that with you to back him, he is cock-sure of carrying {^his} point this very day ------ However, I am not pressed
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in point of time ----- Mrs Earle will not want the horses, (supposing they cannot come sooner) before Friday next the 20^th; and flatters herself she shall compromise matters with her confessor, Mr Allen, for neglecting her religious duties tomorrow at Newton ------ I find the House and gardens as gay and fascinating as your described them; but the fruit of most sorts less abundant than the vivid imagination {^of Urquhart} had depicted them to me ------- I am not surprised at his poetical flight of fancy, the promises of all Gardens being made of puff {?paste/poste} -------
I send you my account-book, to settle at your leisure ----- we are forming schemes to plunder Mr Hotham of his beautiful China Orange tree early in the next week; and are forming more plans for its safe arrival than Jason did to bring home the golden fleece ---- at last, I fancy it will set out from York in a boat hired on purpose, with Urquhart or one of his aide-deCamps to escort it ------
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I have hitherto experienced little benefit from change of air and exercise ----- I eat little and sleep less; which with incessant coughing at night, gives {^me} the air of a rake just escaped from a salivation ------ I consider it as peculiarly hard upon me, to suffer the imputation of a {?Cep} without having tasted the sweets that precede it ------- with Mrs Earle’s warmest wishes for yourself and family, I am, Dear Sir,
yours most sincerely,
G Ea
Beningbrough Hall
Saturday, June 14^th 1806