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XI. page 22
`July 1, 1765.
`DEAR SIR,--I have this moment received the favour of your
letter. I intended to have gone out of town on Thursday, but as
you shall not receive your money before the end of this week, I
must postpone my journey till Sunday. A month would have made no
difference to me, had I not had others to pay before I leave
town, and must pay; therefore must beg that you will leave the
whole before this week is out, at White's, as it is to be paid
away to others to whom I have lost, and do not choose to leave
town till that is done. Be sure you could not wish an
indulgence I should not be happy to grant, if it my power.'
Nor was this the only dun of the kind that Selwyn had `to put up
with' on account of the gaming table. He received the following
from Edward, Earl of Derby.[118]
[118] Edward, twelfth Earl of Derby, was born September 12, 1752,
and died October 21, 1834. He married first, Elizabeth, daughter
of James, sixth Duke of Hamilton, who died in 1799, and secondly,
the celebrated actress, Miss Farren, who died April 23, 1829.
_The Earl of Derby to George Selwyn_.
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