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In a note addressed from the Library of the House of Commons, I asked for an interview, which was somewhat stiffly granted. This was the note which led to our interview: "CLUMBER, "1 Decr. 1856.
Capt Lewis went out 9th & Stayed all night out Killed 9 buffalowmaney of the Buffalow Killed were So meager that they not fit for use Collected by the ade of Some horses the best of the meat in fact all we could Save from wolves & I went on a hunting party the 14 & 15 of Decr. much Snow verry cold 52° below freesinge.
"My Lord, "Your Lordship's most obedient "and most humble servant, "Henry Ffielding." "Decr 6. 1753 "To the Lord High Chancellor" Life of Henry Fielding. Frederick Lawrence, p. 138. Saunders Welch. A Letter on the subject of Robberies, wrote in the year 1753. See the Public Advertiser 1753 March 17, 20, 24 &c.
HEAD QUARTERS, HOLLAND HOUSE. Near Quebec, 15th Decr. 1755.
"I have been at my prest. quarters since the 1st day of Decr.," Washington complained to the commissary-general, "and have not a Kitchen to cook a Dinner in, altho' the Logs have been put together some considerable time by my own Guard. Nor is there a place at this moment in which a servant can lodge, with the smallest degree of comfort. Eighteen belonging to my family, and all Mrs.
We have been at no expence to the crown and intend to be at none, and are settled two hundred miles from any other English Settlement. And your Memorialists as in duty bound shall ever pray. Recd. & Read Decr. 16, 1763. The circumstances under which James Simonds, William Hazen and their associates organized the first trading company at St. John have been already related.
Dialogues always tell; they are dramatic and give an air of reality." The Bible in Spain was published 10th December, and one of the first copies that reached him was inscribed by the author to "Ann Borrow. With her son's best love, 13th Decr. 1842." From the critics there was praise and scarcely anything but praise. It was received as a work bearing the unmistakable stamp of genius.
Dr Sir, Your most obliged and ever faithfull hble Servt., Friday morning, 6th Decr., 1751. The Examination upon Oath of Francis Gropptty of Mount Street, in the Parish of St. George Hanover Square taken this 3rd Day of Febry 1752. The Examt says that upon the First Day of September last he was sent for by the Revd. Mr.
I heard of my Brothers illness to day which has given me much Concurn, I settle with the men and take receipts for Pay up to the 1st of Decr. next, I am invited to a ball in the Village, let Several of the men go, R Fields Kill a Deer George Drewyear returned with a hundred Dollars, he lost
The following letter from Carlyle was written in acknowledgment of an early copy of the book, of which the preface is dated Christmas, 1865. "20 Decr, 1865. "The 'Ethics of the Dust, wh'h I devoured with't pause, and intend to look at ag'n, is a most shining Performance! Never was such a lecture on Crystallography before, had there been nothing else in it, and there are all manner of things.
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