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The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925

The Calvert papers, Vol I

No. 20. WILLIAM PENN TO CHARLES, LORD BALTIMORE.
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12 March 1682/3
l?? to me from Mr Pen
being in to the Ld Baltemores
of the 24th of Janur 1682

My Noble Freind

I must needs hold my selfe obleidged to thee for the Civil Reception I found in Maryland as well as tht respect tht was

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shown by the last express, the news it brought gave Credit to a Rumer I was unwilling to receive, I mean the death of thy Uncle, a man of Prudence & Ingeneous Conversation. It is a Sermon of Mortality, & so much vigor to be so soon vanisht, shows wt fraile things we are, & how little we act the wise & the good men to persue wth stifness a comfort tht cannot keep us Company further then the grave.

My many & urgent businesses would not give me leave to send the Inclosed sooner, I hope the delay has proved no manner of disappointment to thee of an Apology in this affaire I will say no more till we meet. A Story came the other day to my Ears that the Lord Baltimore was wth Capt Conway at Capt Wards, their takeing an observation, as also up the Sasquehanagh River; but I gave no Credit to it, takeing it for graunted That I should have had notice of so neer an approach from the Lord baltimores order, the thing being of tht moment & in me disrespectfull had I had reason to have beleived it, not to have waited vpon him, & he so neer. I hope by the end of this month, to have some prospect when I may attend thee (the Genll Assembly sitting at this time) I am extreamly desireous to yeild in all points not essentially distructive to my right, & the great & Costly merrits of my Cause, resolveing wth much care & affection to approve my selfe

Thy very Loveing
Neighbour & True Frd:
Wm. Penn.

My Respects
to thy lady

Philadelphia
12th 1mo 83

The narrative inclosed to me had its defects wch our 2d intervew may help

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