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Friday 7 December 2012

anecdotes of my ancestors. You may remember the inquiries

I made among the remains of my relations when you were

with me in England, and the journey I undertook for that

purpose. Imagining it may be equally agreeable to* you to

know the circumstances of my life, many of which you are

yet unacquainted with, and expecting the enjoyment of a

week’s uninterrupted leisure in my present country retirement, I sit down to write them for you. To which I have

besides some other inducements. Having emerged from the

poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a

state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world,

and having gone so far through life with a considerable share

of felicity, the conducing means I made use of, which with

the blessing of God so well succeeded, my posterity may

like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to

their own situations, and therefore fit to be imitated.

That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should

have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its

beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a

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