“… to my inexpressible happiness, she is my wife, and truly best part, without a single tinge of my defects”

— Ignatius Sancho

(from vol 2, letter 21: 11 Mar 1779, to Mr S___ ).

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British composer, writer and grocer 1729–1780

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