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Aspland at this juncture was offered a share in a trade. He knew a prosperous dealer in artists' colours in St. Martin's Lane, London, whose daughter, Sara
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Ryland, the theological tutor. He proceeded in due course, October 1799, to
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the People, and other works, a complete list of which is given in his
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