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Dear Friend
Calling this morning at your house, I was told by Dr Solander that you were gone to Brompton. I flatter myself that it was to breakfast, & not to make me endure your reproaches which I think I am so little deserving of, that when I informed you lately of the consent I had given to the Printing of the French Galanteries at Otahite, I imagined you answered you would be glad of it: considering that nothing was containd in that little narrative but what was true & at the same time honourable to you. Whereas my letter to Mr Dalembert is exactly but an addition to yours, & that every things containd in both are already Public & may be so, I have thought them inseparable, I believe that less disadvantage can arise from printing our writing, than in permitting thousand Falshood to be spread abroad supposed to be related by us.
Been [actuated?] by these motives, I have permitted the printing of them, & my consent was solicited by a man to whom I had given my manuscript. As soon as I read in the news papers and advertisement concerning it, I asked for the First sheets in order to review & correct them, & it was with ado that I got the promise of having them: For the Printer (whom I do not know) is so eager to sell them that he does little care for correction. I beg D.F. [Dear Friend?]
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