Most magnanimous,
(For so I think the French call your ancestor “what whopped them so”, though I prefer longanimous in your instance) how comes it to pass that I have heard nothing of you & your Solar Eclipse? 1 I got the translation from the German, (for which thanks) but when I had trimmed it to my modulus, & enclosed it in a letter to the printer, I got my Number from press which filled the two sheets. Now a fly leaf is to be eschewed in all cases, but especially when it changes a 2d postage into a 4d one.
I am reprinting the said Number, & if I can get additional matter from you, & Adams 2 to make something when a quarter sheet, I will add it. But pray let me have what you send quickly, for I have a necessity by no means [illegible], pressing on me, & I must be out whether I am all out or no.
very truly yours
R Sheepshanks
Direct to R.A. Soc.3
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