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[July 31 1789]

Dear Sir Joseph,

I am very much obliged to you for thinking of the Ram for my Brother in law, Mr Lambert. He lives at Woodmanston within half a mile of the Oaks, Lord Derby's villa, and will I am sure be extremely happy to see you, independent of the obligation of a ram of the Spanish breed.  But as he would be much mortified should it happen he was from home when you came, I have wrote to him & he will take, I have no doubt, the the first opportunity of waiting upon you in Town, when you may settle the best mode of conveyance for the father to be of his flocks.  His downs are very promising for the experiment.

Respecting the turtle I am not at a certainty, for though the ship in which I expected it is arrived

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