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            <title>George Birkett to Thomas Gray (<hi rend="it">after</hi> 8 October 1736)</title>
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                        <title>Correspondence of Thomas Gray</title>, 3 vols. Ed. by the late Paget Toynbee and Leonard Whibley, with corrections and additions by H. W. Starr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971 [1st ed. 1935], letter no. 30, vol. i, 53-54
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            <salute> S<hi rend="super">r</hi>
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         <p>As you stay only a fortnight in Town, I may let you know your Bills have been ready more than 3 Months agoe which Bills I hope you
					will receive by this. What your indebted to y<hi rend="super">e</hi> Italian Master I do not certainly
					know. I have paid a Guinea to Senior Piatzzo, &amp; wtever els upon account is due shall at proper time be discharged by</p>
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            <salute> your very friend </salute>
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