Unidad documental simple 19 - Letter from the Earl of Stradbroke to G. W. Manby

Henham Hall.—Will subscribe to Manby’s work (probably his Voyage to Greenland).

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Henham Hall
March 30th | 1822

Dear Sir

I have to apology† for a great omission in not answering your letter received last Month; but as I was getting into the Carriage to go from home when it arrived, it was mislaid, and I did [not] {1} recollect it, till I found it in my Portfolio a few days since. You will oblige me by putting my Name down as a Subscriber to Your Work, {2} and I am

dear Sir
Y[ou]rs faithfully
Stradbroke.

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Docketed, ‘L[or]d Stradbroke’. Dawson Turner has added at the head, ‘To Capt[ai]n Manby’. The missing letters of words abbreviated by superscript letters have been supplied in square brackets.

{1} Omitted by mistake.

{2} Presumably Manby’s Journal of a Voyage to Greenland in the Year 1821, published this year.

† Sic.