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My dear Sir
After what you told me, I judge it unnecessary to trouble you any farther concerning my friend Mr Griffin, and the living of All Saints in Leicester, now vacant. However I could not handsomely avoid informing the writer of the enclosed, that I had communicated her intelligence to the gentleman to whom I had made the application. Your name has not been mentioned on the occasion.
I long to hear that you are pretty well – and particularly that you have supported the late and long sittings of the House, without inconvenience. May the Lord keep and bless you, in body souls and spirit. Amen.
With a tender of Mrs Newton’s best respects,
I remain
My dear Sir
Your most affectionate and obliged servant
John Newton
Coleman Street Buildings
3 June [17]86
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Wilberforce c.49 fol. 10
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