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Monday
My Dear Henry
I took the Martyrs’ Tower 1 to Lady Holland, 2 she was perfectly enchanted & I left the magnifyer with her that she might contemplate it at leisure. She asked immediately if it was to be in the next number of the Pencil of Nature, 3 by which I found she knew more on the subject than I supposed. She called her Page & asked him if she had all the numbers, upon which he directly produced 4 No’s & I should then have naturally told her how she could possess the Sun Pictures, 4 which I had never mentioned to her, but as you deprecate more subscribers I
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