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Boston Franklin Place June 18th 1798
 
Boston Franklin Place June 18th 1798
 
My Dear Sir
 
My Dear Sir
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 ma-
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ny, 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?  
  
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 continu
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-ed through life inexplicably dear to her soul.  
  
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 trans
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-mit the amount of the copies of the Gleaner, which he engaged, it will  
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be very acceptable to me.
  
A large majority of my subscribers are astonishingly _,  and while I am obliged to make functual pay-ment to my Printers, I cannot but be embarrased by this cir-cumstance.
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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  pay
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-ment to my Printers, I cannot but be embarrassed by this cir
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-cumstance.
  
Addressing Colnol Hodgdon in that character o family, which his refutedacts of
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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.