20 March, 1779
Your coming to town, my dear friend, will answer no end. Galli has been such a friend to me, it is not possible to doubt her information.
What interest has she to serve? Certainly none. Look over the letters, with which I have so pestered you for these two years, about this business. Look at what I have written to you about Galli since I returned from Ireland. She can only mean well to me. Be not apprehensive. Your friend will take no step to disgrace hitnself. What I shall do I know not. Without her I do not think I can exist. Yet I will be, you shall see, a man, as well as a lover. Should there be a rival, and should he merit chastisement, I know you'll be my friend. But I'll have ocular proof of everything before I believe.
Yours ever.
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Love and Madness by Herbert Croft
Historical FictionIn 1775, Mr James Hackman, an army officer who subsequently became a clergyman, met and fell in love with Martha Ray (or Reay), a singer and for many years the mistress of the Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty (and inventor of the eponym...
