Letter 1001: Lest my interruption of correspondence be counted against me as a fault, I prefer to be prompt in my duty rather...
Lest my interruption of correspondence be counted against me as a fault, I prefer to be prompt in my duty rather than delay with long expectation of reciprocity; especially since for parents not according to the scale nor...
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AI-assisted translation — This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.
Latin / Greek Original
Ne mihi vitio vertatur intermissio litterarum , malo esse promptuB ofiScii qfuam
& longa expectatione vicissitudinis desidere; tum quod parentibus non ad lancem neque
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