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Residence here as Governor & as it is really to be lamented
that while such great things are done for the Support of

Colleges & Accadcmics in the neighbouring Colonies there 13

not in this even one good Grammar School I should be glad
if either by Donations or some other Method the Fund or
annual Income of our School in this City could be augmented
so as to enable us to give such a Salary to a Master & Usher
as would encourage good & able Men to act in those Capaci-
ties. It gives me much pleasure to find that His Ldp was in
good health at Naples when he wrote the Letter you had the
Satisfaction to receive from him the 9^th of May last, & I most
sincerely hope the long Tour he proposed to take may not
impair it. from Your saying that he had Thoughts of passing
the Autumn at Constantinople I presume you do not expect
to see His Ldp in England before next summer. I flatter
myself nothing will happen here in the mean time to give
either you or me much Uneasiness. I am &c.

Letter Bk. IV

[Calvert to Sharpe.]

London Sept^r 3^d 1763.
Sir,
The Surveyors on imediate departure allows but time to
Acknowledge my selfe to you & Notice of my having wrote
you fully on all Affairs, with particulars & cause of their
arrival: by the same advise accompany'd, are Deeds, Mathe-
matical advise with Doctor Bevis's Transit Instrum^t & all
things Necessary to facilitate the run of the Boundary Lines
By his Lord^p & the Mess^rs Penns.
Tis with real concern I observe by American Inteligence
that an Indian War on a sudden is bro^t on, that they have
entered & comitted most Barbarous depredations on His
Majestys Colonies, of w^h are arrived very Mellancholly Letters,
& among Circumstances "That col: Tho^s Cressap with his
Family and Neighbours are cut off by the Indians in Frederick
County " And by Advice from Alexandria, July the 12^th the
Frontiers of Virginia & Maryland are now or will be soon in
the most deplorable condition : this is Dire ! upon a Peace:
However his Lord^p of Maryland has consolation from his
known experience of you Viz^t your fidelity to the King &
Hon^ble discharge of all Trusts reposed in you: thus assured
from y^r good Conduct & Resolution, joined & enabled by Aid
& Assistance of the Provincial Malitia, you have & will be
vigilant & with vigorous Effort repel the Savages, & secure
safe his Majesty's Subjects from Violence & Harm. The
fundamental Law of Nature, Self Preservation on this occasion
calls forth all men to stand & Act Se Defendendo, this a Maxim

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