Letters containing Science or Information Written Prior toThe Month of August 1768', [1768] (Series 82.01) - No. 0002

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1799

if these Collections which now consist of 15 volumes shall by any accident descend to posterity the Collector requests that allowance may be made for numerous Letters which will be uninteresting to the Reader & Recollect that numerous Temporary reasons occurred which Compelled him to preserve for his own sake matters not likely to interest any one else  he hopes however he has done his duty to his Successors by destroying nothing likely either to interest or amuse his successors