Reproduced by courtesy of the
Sheet of
Address leaf bearing two postmarks: one black and illegible; one red circular with crown reading
FREE
23 NO 23
1821
A triangular portion of page 1 has been torn away under the seal.
Red wax seal (back side showing), portion of page one adhered underneath.
Mitford’s spelling and punctuation are retained, except where a word is split at the end of a line and the beginning of the next in the manuscript. Where Mitford’s spelling and hyphenation of words deviates from the standard, in order to facilitate searching we are using the TEI elements “choice," “sic," and “reg" to encode both Mitford’s spelling and the regular international standard of Oxford English spelling, following the first listed spelling in the Oxford English Dictionary. The long s and ligatured forms are not encoded.
I send you another Catastrophe on the poisoning scheme--I am heartily sorry to give you &
should speak