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that
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holding an Opcial reception in
name be omitted from
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honor of one I
the list of imitations to Govern. ment- House,
(Signed) J.
I am ac
J.M. I`'Almada e Castro Private Secretary
H... Wodehoun Jr.
I am enturily at a loss to Know
in what respect my action was
Even
on social grounds
on an occasion
this
wrong. I might Kind have expected to have been honound with an invitation, and when in addition to this I happers Spice of Cory Randing in the Coroy the frame of which was
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grandsons
the Queen whose servant I
within
I considered it not only
my right but
my
impera.
tive duty to ascertain whelter the the same omission to accord me
honom
as was accorded to the
subordinate Spicus in this Depart-
ment was due to inadvertence or
not.
I returned the following reply to the Private Seculary
Sir
May 1800
I have the honour to acknowledge
holding
the