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Samuel Laman Blanchard to Peter George Patmore, 10 September 1843
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“Sept. 10, 1843.

“My dear Patmore,—When your note came I had just written to you, stating my
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total ignorance of there being a notice in Blackwood. I have since written to Coventry. But it now strikes me that I ought instantly to have replied to one allusion in your letter, though you put no question direct. If you suppose that the person you mention has directly or indirectly the remotest share in the attack, the suspicion is flagrantly and monstrously wrong. I will engage to swear that he is as innocent of any the least knowledge of it as you are. There is another person who, as a friend of ——, I may suppose you to have in your mind. I can say as much, or almost, for him. You must hunt in a totally opposite quarter. The thing itself I have not allowed myself to see. The last bitter outrage on Procter was my sickener.

“Ever yours truly,
“L. B.

“I do hope you are not allowing it to have more than its natural momentary effect on you. Injury it cannot do, except to your own feelings, which I allow for being ten times stronger of course than if you were ostensibly the person assailed.”