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Westmorland Gazette, 21 June 1823:-
  letter from T Hodgson
(ADVERTISEMENT.)

Hodgson's MAP OF WESTMORLAND.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE KENDAL GAZETTE
A Report having been recently circulated, that the Map of Westmorland, which I am preparing for publication, and for which I have, during the last year, been engaged in the Survey of that County, was likely to be abandoned for a pecuniary compromise, and its further prosecution relinquished in favour of other persons, I think it requisite, in consequence of insinuations so unfounded, to inform the public immediately, that a desertion of engagement so contemptible, has never been my intention, and to assure the Subscribers most especially, that a requital of their liberality and patronage so base, I never contemplated. To them indeed some apology may be due, for the inevitable prolonging of its date of publication beyond what I first anticipated; but I hope for their forbearance when they reflect (and those who have witnessed it, can fully appreciate,) the great length of labour which an individual must necessarily sacrifice in surveying a County, even so limited as Westmorland, with the minuteness of the Chain, and when they consider that the accuracy of the construction of its Plan, ought to be commensurate with the time and assiduity it has occupied.
I am very respectfully,
T. HODGSON.
This letter is repeated in the Westmorland Gazette 28 June 1823, and appears in the Kendal Chronicle 21 June 1823 where it is dated:-
Appleby, 6th month 19th, 1823.
Notice the interesting expression of a date, used throughout his correspondence by TH.

Summary

from - T Hodgson
to - the Editor, aimed at C Greenwood
ABANDONMENT OF SURVEY;
RUMOURS
not abandoning survey, CG's rumours are false
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