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Metadata
Titles
Paton
To Bishop Gordon
Pages
Forbes
Vol. 9, 1974
Paton
Vol. 3, 274
Credits
Encoder
Alyssa Bridgman
Transcriber
Bo Pearson
Proofreader
Bo Pearson
Encoder
Genevieve Bourjeaurd
Status
Document
transcription ready for proof
Metadata
metadata done
Correspondence
sent
Person Robert Forbes
Date21 Oct 1772
Place
Place
received
Person Bishop Gordon
PlaceLondon
acknowledgements
quote
Upon receipt of yours of the 2nd instant (Paton V.3, 274).
compliments to
enclosed in
enclosures
requests
quote
Can you send me a copy of that same Gazetteer? I can have the letter still printed here, for whatever is done at London becomes a warrant for reprinting here (Paton V.3, 274).
remediation
in Forbes
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Transcription

To BBishop.GGordon. "Octr 21. 1772.

Upon Receipt of yours of
“the 2d instant, I wrote to the Printer, a special
“Friend of mine, intimating D’Argenson’s Letter
“to be in the Gazetteer of Septr 30. But, it
“would appear, it is a Morning Paper, &and does
“not come to Edr. Can you send me a Copy
“of that same Gazetteer? I can
“have the Letter still printed here;
“for whatever is done at London, be-
“comes
a Warrant for reprinting here.
“Verbum sapienti sat est.”

X
i. e. Paragraph from Rome, pag. hujus 1971.
qchwhich appeared in Caled.Caledonian Mercury, Satur. Sep 26.
1772
. + See pag. 1968 hujus.

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Citation
Forbes, Robert. “To Bishop Gordon.” The Lyon in Mourning, vol. 9, Adv.MS.32.6.24, fol. 69v. The Lyon in Mourning Project, edited by Leith Davis, https://lyoninmourning.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/v09.1974.01.html.
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