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As this Brady is far away, and probably not so well acquainted with the schoolmaster's fist as Gilcrest is, it will be safer to send my copy to him, Drane decided,
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Dear A. D., and signed with the initials
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B. S. Much of the letter was couched in language so obscure as to bear no precise meaning without a verbal interpretation which, the letter stated, would be given by the bearer, S. Swartwourt, to whom
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A. D. was referred. The letter alluded to the confidence the writer had hitherto placed in
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A. D., and to the former correspondence between them. It also mentioned an enclosure from
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Gen. W., written in cipher, to which cipher
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B. S. stated
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A. D. had a key.
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B. S. ended his letter with the request that the enclosure from
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W. be shown to Messrs.
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M. and
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A., and then promptly forwarded to
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T. P.
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B. S. Drane had torn off that part which bore the date,
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May 2, 1802, and at the bottom of the page had added in a fair likeness of the handwriting of
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B. S., the date,
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Oct. 12, 1802.