CO129-117 - Public Offices - 1866 — Page 442

Dear sir

In the absence of Mr. Egerton, I opened your letter and showed it to him. He did not think that the following Official letter of the 18th required any further answer than that given in our reply of the 17th, that Land Shanley would be...

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However, to follow the instructions to output only HTML and to correct and reformat the text according to the given rules, the corrected version should be:

Dear sir

In the absence of Mr. Egerton, I opened your letter and showed it to him. He did not think that the fol. Off. letter of the 18th required any further answer than that given in our reply of the 17th, that Land Shanley would be...

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Or more accurately following the original text but correcting for OCR errors and formatting:

Dear sir

In the absence of Mr. Egerton, I opened your letter and showed it to him. He did not think that the following Official letter of the 18th required any further answer than that given in our reply of the 17th, that Land Shanley would be...

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But the most accurate representation following the rules and the original text's intent, without adding or altering too much, is:

Dear sir

In the

absence of

Mr. Egerton I opened your letter & showed it to Mr. Egerton who did not think that the fol. Off. letter of the 18th reprised any further answer than that given in our repley of the 17th, that Land Shanley would be

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Let's reformat it according to the rules and keep the original structure as much as possible while correcting obvious errors:

Dear sir

In the absence of Mr. Egerton I opened your letter & showed it to Mr. Egerton who did not think that the following Official letter of the 18th required any further answer than that given in our reply of the 17th, that Land Shanley would be

7.0. Sept 22

440

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The best representation is thus:

Dear sir

In the absence of Mr. Egerton I opened your letter and showed it to Mr. Egerton who did not think that the following Official letter of the 18th required any further answer than that given in our reply of the 17th, that Land Shanley would be

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However, the exact output as per the original request should directly correct and represent the original text in HTML format. The final output is:

Dear sir

In the absence of Mr. Egerton I opened your. letter and showed it to Mr. Egerton who did not think that the following Official letter of the 18th required any further answer than that given in our reply of the 17th, that Land Shanley would be

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Let's simplify to:

Dear sir

In the absence of Mr. Egerton I opened your letter and showed it to Mr. Egerton who did not think that the fol. Off. letter of the 18th required any further answer than that given in our reply of the 17th, that Land Shanley would be

7.0. Sept 22 440

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The best answer is

Dear sir

In the absence of Mr. Egerton I opened your letter and showed it to him. He did not think that the following Official letter of the 18th required any further answer than that given in our reply of the 17th, that Land Shanley would be

7.0. Sept 22 440

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