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373. ANDREW FOUNTAINE AN LEIBNIZ
Wien, 10. Dezember 1701. [358. 396.]
Überlieferung: K Abfertigung: LBr. 279 Bl. 5–6. 1 Bog. 4 o . Goldschnitt. 3 S. u. 4 Z. Links
oben auf Bl. 5 r o Vermerk von Leibniz’ Hand: ” resp.‘‘. Bibl.verm. — Gedr.: Kemble, Correspondence,
1857, S. 257 f. 5
Vienna Decemb. 10. 1701
I am convinced by your letter which I was soe happy as to meet with at this place,
that you are still soe kind as to remember me. I received alsoe Mad le Pelnitz’s letter
which I take for a great honour and design to return her my humble thankes next post;
you need not have made any excuse for the breaking of it open, since there’s nothing 10
that I am master of that I would not very willingly communicate to you. I am very much
obliged to you and your society for your kind acceptance of me into your number, and
I shall make it my endeavour to be as serviceable to you as I can. I wonder you have
not yet received the methods of our Insurance offices for Fire, because I wrote a great
while agoe about that matter; and have received an answer to the letter I wrote to the 15
Bookseller at the same time; he is like most others of his trade a Knave, and talks of
such terms as are not worth your while to give, but I will write to another next post
in Expectation of a better answer. I send you here Enclosed a letter I received from
M r Edward Thwaites that has published severall saxon books at our presse at Oxford,
perhaps you may find something in it that will make amends for the dulnesse of my own. 20
The letters of Addresse that you have already given me have bin of singular use to me;
soe that I most eagerly embrace your kind proposall of sending me some for Italy. I shall
in two weeks time set forward for Venice, and shall be glad of the honour of delivering
any letters or any commands that you shall lay upon 〈...〉
Direct your next to me Chez M r Broughton consul de la Nation Angloise à Venise. 25
Pray give my humblest services to all my Friends at Hannover, and assure ’em that
Zu N. 373: K antwortet auf N. 331 und hatte als Beilage einen nicht gefundenen Brief von E. Thwaites
an Fountaine (vgl. Z. 18 f.). 14 methods: nicht ermittelt, vgl. N. 411; infrage kommen verschiedene
Veröffentlichungen des Londoner Fire Office, nach den Ausführungen in N. 423 insbesondere A t a b l e
shewing the rates of insuring houses at the Fire-office, 1700. 19 saxon books: Heptateuchus, Liber
Job, et Evangelium Nicodemi; Anglo-Saxonice, 1698; vgl. B i b l i a , SV.
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