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[Sharpe to Calvert.]
Copy of 135th Letter to Mr Calvert Dated the 26th of Febry
1765. transmitted by Captain Leslie
Sir
1 did myself the honour on the 14th of December last to
write to both His Ldp & Yourself, the Vessel by which I
transmit this was to have sailed about a Fortnight aiterwards
but hath been detained ever since by the Ice, for the Weather
this Winter hath been so severe that from the Beginning of
January to the Middle of this Month most of our Rivers were
passable on the Ice & our Navigation is but just again opened.
Nothing has happened here within these two months particu-
larly worthy your Notice but I thought it my Duty to write to
tell you so & at the same time transmit you thirty more
Sheets of Mr Bacon's Edition of our Laws which you will per-
ceive are now printed down so low as the year 1745. I some-
time ago intimated to you that Disputes & Contentions had
run very high in Pennsylvania about the Petition carried
home by Mr Franklyn for a Change of Government, & I learn
from a Person just come hither from Philaa that the two Par-
ties or some at least among them have gone prodigious
Lengths in abusing & calumniating each other so that the
City is become a Scene of Discord & Enmity while at the
same time they complain of their Trades declining greatly by
reason as they say of the late Act of Parliament which indeed
seems to be considered throughout North America as calcu-
lated to distress the Colonies without doing the least Service
to the Mother Country. Having nothing to communicate to
His Lordship at this time I decline addressing myself to
him by Letter till another Opportunity but desire the favour
of you to present my dutiful Respects & am with the greatest
Regard Sir &c.
[Sharpe to Calvert.]
Copy of 136th Letter to Mr Calvert dated 28th Feby 1765.
Sir
I write this just to inclose you the Firsts of Bills of
Exchange for the Sum of One hundred twenty five Pounds
ten shillings: & to inform you that I sometime ago promised
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