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the Province & these not yet loaded you will not therefore I
presume on their account defer your Return to Hallifax ; You
will Sir I hope excuse me for the Trouble you have had in
Consequence of my Letter to Lord Colvill & believe that I am
with great Regard &c.

[Sharpe to Amherst]

To His Excellency Sir Jeffery Amherst. Annapolis the 26^th
Jan^y 1762.
Sir
As I have not had the honour of a Line from Your Excel-
lency since I took the Liberty to write to you the 12^th of Nov^r
last I am inclined to think that my Letter which was sent by a
private Hand to Phila^a to be put into the Post-Office there
never reached Your Excellency, lest therefore that should
have been the Case I presume to trouble Your Excellency
with a Duplicate thereof hoping you will be so kind when
convenient as to favour me with an answer & thereby much
oblige Y^r Excellency's most obed^t &c.

[Sharpe to Capt. Adams.]

To Captain Adams of the Diana. Annapolis the 27^th Jan^y
1762.
Sir
I am extremely sorry that the long Detention in Virginia of
the Letter you were pleased to write to me the 4^th of Dec^r
should have given you the trouble of writing to me again the
22^d Inst & have laid you under a Necessity of dispatching an
Express to this Place, Lest my answer to the first Letter I had
the honour to receive from you should not have come to your
hands before the Express returns I have thought fit to inclose
a Duplicate of it together with a Duplicate of a Letter I took
the Liberty to address to Lord Colvill & wishing you a suc-
cessful Cruize I am —

[Sharpe to Egremont.]

To the Earl of Egremont. Annapolis the 6^th of Feb^J 1762.
My Ld.
Having been lately favoured with the Letter by which Your
Ldp did me the honour to notify to me that His Majesty had
been graciously pleased to grant M^r Pitt's Request to retire
from Business & thereupon to appoint your Ldp Secretary of
State for the Southern Department I embrace the earliest

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