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Dear Sirs,

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

1. Passages in italics are surrounded by _underscores_.

2. Obvious errors in punctuation have been silently corrected.

3. The original text includes Greek characters. For this text version these letters have been replaced with transliterations.

4. Certain words use oe ligature in the original.

5. Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, hyphenation, and ligature usage have been retained.