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                <title>Letter from Newton to John Grigsby concerning a South Sea stock dividend</title>
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                <p xml:id="par1">Pray pay to D<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Francis Fauquier the three per cent <lb xml:id="l1"/><del type="over">d</del><add place="over" indicator="no">D</add>ividend due on my two thousands five hundred pounds <lb xml:id="l2"/>south sea stock at Midsummer last past, &amp; his Receipt <lb xml:id="l3"/>shall be <choice><abbr>yo<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></abbr><expan>your</expan></choice> discharge from <lb xml:id="l4"/><space unit="lines" dim="vertical" extent="1"/><lb xml:id="l5"/>1<hi rend="superscript">st</hi> Sept. 1713 <space unit="chars" dim="horizontal" extent="10"/><hi rend="large"><choice><abbr>Yo<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></abbr><expan>Your</expan></choice> humble servant <lb xml:id="l6"/><space unit="chars" dim="horizontal" extent="30"/>Isaac Newton</hi> <lb xml:id="l7"/>To M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi>. John Grigsby <lb xml:id="l8"/>Accomptant General to <lb xml:id="l9"/>the South Sea <choice><abbr>Comp.<hi rend="superscript">ny</hi></abbr><expan>Company</expan></choice>
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