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National Library of Wales, MS 4813D. ALS; 2p. . Not previously published.
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You will wonder perhaps at the direction of the inclosed. It is in reply to a letter about the
institution at Bailbrook, – which I have promised to bring before the public in the QR. with a very sincere desire
of assisting so useful a scheme.
You have given the newspapers a wholesome lesson, tho the gentleman whose name is so carefully
kept out of them escaped more cheaply than he deserved, – for as for the defence, – as the men man said
about Gullivers Travels, I do not believe above half of it.xxx in general, that I verily believe them to be among the very
worst members of the community.
I shall finish my Brazil
I was a good deal shocked yesterday by seeing Daunceys