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43 Castle Street, Edinburgh - Thanks WW for his Plato: 'I am very glad that you have taken up Plato, in the way you have done. That...blundering blockhead Burgess [George Burges], with his tasteless and unintelligible jargon called English, has done a great deal of harm to the divine philosophers'.

(Declaimed 28 Mar. 1805.)

(Transcript in Turner’s hand. At the head is written, ‘the original of this letter is among Autographs, Series B.’)