Letter from William Henry Milburn to Sampson Low Junior

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line 1: No. 1 Arene de la Porte Maillot
line 2: Passy
line 3: Aug 18th / 1857
line 4: My dear Mr Low
line 5: I shall hope to be in London
line 6: some time in the week ending Sept.
line 7: 5th & will be ready to lecture any
line 8: night the following week you may
line 9: think best to fix upon. How will a
line 10: lecture with this title answer? "Wes
line 11: -tern Mind, its Manifestations
line 12: Eloquence & Humor". You may
line 13: alter the phraseology, if a better
line 14: one occurs to you. How would Exe
line 15: -ter Hall do? Or would it be too ex

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line 1: -lusive? It ought to be thoroughly
line 2: advertised in such papers as you
line 3: may deem the best for the purpose
line 4: - not forgetting the Gatehouse
line 5: also by placards. Tickets must
line 6: also be printed so as to circulate
line 7: some complimentary ones. Suppose
line 8: Mr Sharp should go to 20 Bishops
line 9: -gate Street within & dine with Mrs
line 10: Osborn & Mr Arthur about writing
line 11: a lot of notices to be sent to &
line 12: read in our Chapels the first &
line 13: second Sunday before. If they should
line 14: think it ?? it ?? I think
line 15: it would be well of him also

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line 1: advise with them as to sending
line 2: tickets to the Wesleyan Ministers.
line 3: Tickets for sale with a small neat
line 4: placard might be left at the Cen
line 5: -tenary Hall Bishopsgate etc with
line 6: Mr William. Vaughan 19-20 Aldgate
line 7: & in your own store, & anywhere
line 8: else you may think of.
line 9: Send complimentary tickets to
line 10: whomsoever you think proper. Let
line 11: Mr Sharp do everything that may
line 12: need to be done & do nothing your
line 13: self but the head work.
line 14: I start this PM afternoon for a little
line 15: trip of a few days on the Rhine.

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line 1: Pray let me hear from you at this
line 2: address, to which please also
line 3: send my letters until you hear
line 4: from me to the contrary.
line 5: Hoping that we may make a
line 6: hit & with best regards for
line 7: Mrs Low, your Father & his
line 8: Family, I am my dear Mr Low
line 9: Very truly
line 10: Your friend
line 11: W. H. Milburn
line 12: Sampson Low Junior Esq.