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for the venison you intend to send him, & to hope express his hopes that you intend to partake of it; I much fear that his sollicitations will be ineffectual unless you should think that a little conversation between you & me upon the business of the publication might do good; in that you should not dislike another party uppon Whittlesea Mere; I believe Huntingdon is allmost halfway from London to Honcastle, you cannot conceive how agreeably you would surprize me if you would come & take up your usual quarters ay Hinchinbrook any time between the 25th and 30th of this month, which last is the day of the Mayors feast & I shall probably stay a week after the feast.
I caught eleven barbel last week in less than an hour, but they were all small.
I beg my best respects to your agreeable fire side.
I am ever most faithfully yrs,
Sandwich.