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LETTERS FROM PITT 1

SKETCH OF PITT BY W. WILBERFORCE 43

LETTERS FROM FRIENDS 83

HOME LETTERS 163

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LETTERS FROM PITT.

THE first of Pitt's letters to Wilberforce is "perhaps the only one extant that is racy of those rollicking times when the 'fruits of Pitt's earlier rising' appeared in the careful sowing of the garden beds with the fragments of Ryder's opera hat."

"So adieu. Yrs. ever sincerely, "W. PITT."

"Ever sincerely yrs., "W. PITT."

Pitt's next letter refers to the General Election of 1784, and William Wilberforce's candidature for Yorkshire, which county he represented in Parliament for twenty-eight years.

"DEAR WILBERFORCE,--I have received your two expresses, and one this morning from Mr. Wyvill. I could not get to town till late last night, but sent forward the letters you desired, and have done all I can on the several subjects you mention.

"Most truly yours, "W. PITT.


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