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Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 21 July 1837
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“Gilston Park, July 21, 1837.

“Dear Patmore,—Thank you for your agreeable letter—agreeable to an author, if ever there was one, for it is full of the
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most delicate flattery, or (if that shocks you) encomiums, which who can withstand? My wife’s word is perhaps the best, ‘encouragement,’ for much certainly does it encourage me; but my head is at present so full of political lore (not modern, but of the Revolution), that I do not think I could recal enough of ‘Sterling’ to proceed upon your valuable hint. But as it is, I am really grateful to you, and elevated too in consequence of your opinion, which, you know, I always think a faithful barometer. * * *

“You see that I have been selfish enough to begin with my business—now for yours. Tell me when you would have the fawn killed and sent, and it shall be done. I really did not know before that it was ever served up as a table delicacy, and only wish I could have profited by the knowledge before thinning was over. The spring was so cold and backward that we have been forced to postpone venison till the middle or end of next month, and therefore prefer the fawn to the haunch.

“I will seriously think what may be done to ‘Sterling;’ but I am anything but a
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lover just now, and would much rather discuss the legality of Lord Russell’s execution, which I am quite sure of proving, as well as that Fox was the most unfair and prejudiced of embryo historians—for he was no more.

“But as dinner is served, you must excuse more than thanks for your letter. And so believe me,

“Ever much yours,
“R. P. W.”