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reason to hope that such relations will continue, 

 because I think you will readily admit that I have 

 fulfilled the obligation into which I entered with 

 you at the beginning. You have had the best of 

 the contract, for perhaps so many coloured plates 

 and a sheet of letter-press were never before issued 

 at so low a rate as in this work. For this you 

 have to thank the spirited enterprise of my artist, 

 Mr. Fawcett, with whose illustrations you have now 

 long been acquainted. I must not express my own 

 opinion of these figures here, but I am quite sure 

 they have met with very extended approbation. 



And now I will leave my work to your kind 

 and friendly indulgence. 



Colchester, April 23rd., 1863. 



