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[in pencil]   29.11.24 10

You may well wonder at my having once more embarked in business, but the offer of being associated with esteemed Friends, and of doubling my fortune as it were at the same time, proved more than I could resist, & you may accordingly fancy me seated in the back room you will remember in St. James's Street, for seven or eight hours a day during ten months in the year – When I quitted China, as a single man, no House in London could have seduced me from freedom & leisure, but two years experience taught me better, and marriage with the prospect of a family tames many a wandering spirit into permanent residence and better behaviour. –  Edward would tell you about my dear Wife whom you may remember as Mrs. Mathison's infant daughter when we quitted England in 1805 –  She made me 

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