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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 | + | While with superior pleasure I acknowledge your ma- |
+ | ny, 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 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 | + | 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 continu | ||
+ | -ed through life inexplicably dear to her soul. | ||
− | Whenever it may suit Doctor Barton's convenience to | + | Whenever it may suit Doctor Barton's convenience to trans |
+ | -mit the amount of the copies of the Gleaner, which he engaged, it will | ||
+ | be very acceptable to me. | ||
− | A large majority of my subscribers are astonishingly | + | A large majority of my subscribers are |
+ | astonishingly remiss, and while I am obliged to make punctual pay | ||
+ | -ment to my Printers, I cannot but be embarrassed by this cir | ||
+ | -cumstance. | ||
− | Addressing | + | Addressing Colonel Hodgdon in that character of amity, |
+ | which his repeated acts of kindness authorizes, I take the liberty to | ||
+ | observe, that my pecuniary perplexities from my publication are far | ||
+ | beyond every calculation which I had made -- my manuscripts ex- | ||
+ | tended considerably further than the three hundred pages per volume, | ||
+ | for which I originally agreed with my printer, and for each extra | ||
+ | page, I am charged one dollar and two thirds -- this circumstance, | ||
+ | with other contingencies, have swelled a debt of fifteen hundred dollars. |