Charles Calvert, Baron Baltimore letter to Nicholas Spencer, 1681/1682 January 2

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I most willingly embrace all opportunities, that offer,
to acknowledge your fauoures and the obligations I lye
under for them, wishing you would giue me the meanes
of a good occasion of testifying the intense zeale I haue
to serue you; I am under some apprehensions, least
the malice of some persons (lately Inhabitants of this
Prouince) may haue [illegible] misrepresented me to you, as
their constant endeauoures haue been (whilst liuers
in this Gouernment) to be malitious in that point to
me here this is that which I fear hath depriued me
of the happinesse and fauour you some time afforded
me, by most obliging letters I haue had, and untill
I am made happy by some lines from you, I shall
runn farther into the same Jealouses and apprehen
=sions of some ill Offices done me with you Twere
idle in me to beleiue you are not plentifully supplied
with news and such papers as are lately come forth
the Presse being as prolifick now in England, as it
has euer been for three or fouer yeares last past; yet
if, att any time, [illegible] I haue may be worth your
perusall upon the least notice of your Commands, I shall
readily furnish you with my Stock; that or anything
else I am master and owner of shall be att your
Seruice, as I am with great truth and reallity

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2 Jan 1681/2

From Mr. Spencer
Secretary of Virginia

For William Blathwaite
Esquire
present
Att Whitehall
From Virginia
per Captain [illegible] Martin