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There is a stupid oversight of mine in the first sheet of the Notes. The Zaratein the as Preface – with the title &c. The notes will not I think exceed
six sheets in the whole, so that Poples part may easily be finished by the end of
this month; & allowing the whole of February to the binders, we may start by the beginning of March. There is no better season for
publishing, & xx seasons are of little consequence to works of permanent interest.
I have given Elmsley a commission for Labatsxxxx alley which you pass thro in Holborn, should be forthcoming with a
Catalogue about this time, & I have generally found his collection of books the cheapest as well as best of any in town. Dulan in
Soho Square has the most foreign books.
As for Kehamaxx <about> them. I have had no proof yet, tho daily expecting one for the last three weeks.
I am at present a good deal interested about an affair in which you can render me some service, & my Aunt perhaps more, women in such cases being the most useful friends. A young Bristol
man (boy he might be called) dying at the age of one & twenty, has bequeathed his papers to two young friends
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th. Jany.
Pople is instructed to send you a proof of the Preface,dedi dedication in which I think you will find nothing that ought to be
objected to, & which – with your leave – must stand. You will see that I have advertised for the books