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Boston Franklin Place June 18th 1798
 
Boston Franklin Place June 18th 1798
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Sir
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My Dear Sir
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While with superior pleasure I acknowledge your many, and repeated favours, I take leave to ask if my Brother's responses to the dispatches of government are not yet received? how he determines with respect to his removal? and whether we may indulge a hope of seeing him here, before he commences his journey to the Mifsisipi[sic]?  
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While with superior pleasure I acknowledge your many, and repeated favours, I take leave to ask if my Brother's responses  
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to the dispatches of government are not yet received? how he determines  
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with respect to his removal? and whether we may indulge a hope of  
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seeing him here, before he commences his journey to the Missisipi?  
  
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Your benevolence will teach you to allow for the feelings of a sister tremblingly alive to every thing which may affect a Brother who was one of the earliest objects of her attachment, and who hath continued through life inexplicably dear to her soul.  
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Your benevolence will teach you to allow for the feelings of a sister  
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tremblingly alive to every thing which may affect a Brother who  
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was one of the earliest objects of her attachment, and who hath continued through life inexplicably dear to her soul.  
  
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Whenever it may suit Doctor Barton's convenience to transmit the amount of the copies of the Gleaner, which he engaged it will be very acceptable to me.
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Whenever it may suit Doctor Barton's convenience to transmit the amount of the copies of the Gleaner, which he engaged, it will  
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be very acceptable to me.
  
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A large majority of
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A large majority of my subscribers are
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astonishingly remiss,  and while I am obliged to make punctual  payment to my Printers, I cannot but be embarrassed by this circumstance.
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Addressing Colonel Hodgdon in that character of amity,
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which his repeated acts of kindness authorizes, I take the liberty to
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observe, that my pecuniary perplexities from my publication are far
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beyond every calculation which I had made -- my manuscripts ex-
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tended considerably further than the three hundred pages per volume,
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for which I originally agreed with my printer, and for each extra
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page, I am charged one dollar and two thirds -- this circumstance,
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with other contingencies, have swelled a debt of fifteen hundred dollars.