Letter received by Banks from an unknown correspondent, undated (Series 72.198) - No. 0001

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My Dear Sr Joseph

I am very much obliged to you for your Xmas box & I do really hope it may do some good;  but I shoryly [surely] suspect from what I have known of that sort of gentlemen that they will be more moved by a few lines in Prose from your friends the Proctors than by all the Verses that could be written from Homer down to