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THE

TATLER.

N° 38. THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1709.

Quicquid agunt bomines

nostri est farrago libelli.

JUV. Sat. i. 85, 86.

P.

Whate'er men do, or say, or think, or dream,

Our motley paper seizes for its theme.

By Mrs. JENNY DISTAFF Half-sister to Mr.
BICKERSTAFF.

From my own Apartment, July 6.

I FIND among my brother's papers the following letter verbatim, which I wonder how he could suppress so long as he has, since it was sent him for no other end, but to show the good effect his writings have already had upon the ill customs of the age.

SIR,

London, June 23.

The end of all public papers ought to be the benefit and instruction, as well as the diversion of the readers; to which I see none so truly conducive as your late performances; especially those tending

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