“I am sure if Mr
Hunter is really sorry for the occasion of my long absence from
your shop, I shall be happy to forget all disagreeable circumstances, and visit
it often as a customer and amateur. I think it necessary to add (before
departing from this subject, and I hope for ever), that it is not in my power
to restore our relative situation as author and publishers, because, upon the
breach between us, a large capital was diverted by the
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