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Jack Pilkington

 

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Jack Pilkington : [a letter]

[a gentleman in her shop having paid the postage due on a packet from Edinburgh, LP] 'civilly entreated his Permission to peruse my Letter, to which he agreeing, I had not read above ten Lines, when I burst into Tears, so the Gentleman insisted on my laying it aside while he stayed, telling me, I must so far oblige him as to write a Love Letter for him'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Letter

  

Jack Pilkington : [a letter]

'When Mr [italics] Brush [end italics] departed, I read my dear Child's Letter' [she gives the text of the letter]

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Letter

 

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