[Footnote 1:]

The Rev. John Palmer, Fellow of St. John's, Adam's Professor of Arabic (1804-19).

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102 — To Francis Hodgson[1]

Newstead Abbey, Notts., Nov. 3, 1808.

My Dear Hodgson, — I expected to have heard ere this the event of your interview with the mysterious Mr. Haynes, my volunteer correspondent; however, as I had no business to trouble you with the adjustment of my concerns with that illustrious stranger, I have no right to complain of your silence.

[You]