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I put by my own papers, & waited on Mr. Fenwick. That letter Both those letters, one to Mr. Larkins, & the other to me, I returned to Mr. Fenwick in the presence of Mr. Lamb & Mr. Lisle. The general tendency of the letter to Mr. Larkins is all I remember: it was rash & intemperate. The purpose of it was that Larkins shd meet Mr. Fenwick hostilely to give him satisfaction as a gentleman, & I was to appoint time & place: it was to fight a duel. I said to Mr. Fenwick that I would deliver challenge from him to any man in the settlement, if there were grounds to warrant it, but that (his letter to Mr. Larkins) I would not deliver; that the form of a challenge was generally well known among men, & that letter could not be considered as a challenge, which a man of sense ought to carry. I then ask Mr. F what cause Mr. L. had given him for writing that intemperate letter.