ALS to Thomas Venables, 1796.

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ALS to Thomas Venables, 1796.

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Manuscript, in a single hand, of a letter by Edmund Burke to Thomas Venables thanking him for his "most cordial & human attention to my friend" William Burke, who "ought to have taken your advice with regard to every thing proper for his safety; & I really thought he had actually taken the precautions about his name that you recommended," arranging for William's temporary lodgings and meals in the Isle of Man, and reminding Venable that "the substance of this Letter...is of course not to be communicated to him: as it expresses a doubt of his sufficiency to manage his own affairs." The letter is accompanied by a 3-page letter written by Jane Burke to Venable regarding the same "poor friend Mr. W-B," "beging you woud fix him in safe lodgings for a few days; until we know the result of a treaty set on foot wtih the man," and asking Venables to "tell him we are well, but that we are afraid to write him he ought to go by some other name then his own while he is to remain in Chester."

1 v. (4 p.) ; 30 x 25 cm.

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Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797

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