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Transcribed and encoded from the original in the British Library, Add. MS 40120, f. 275.
To Mrs. Gent
Dear Madam,
I exceedingly desire to make amends for all the
trouble you have had, by my egregious keeping of your "Aughts and Ends" and really blush
to think, that nothing is within my power by way of recompense.
I know not what to do; but (as it's his first
William Behnes Esq.