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+From: "Lemuel Gulliver, esq." <gulliver@example.net>
+To: root
+Subject: Travels into several remote Nations of the World
+
+A LETTER from Capt. Gulliver, to his Cousin Sympson
+
+I HOPE you will be ready to own publickly, whenever you shall be called
+to it, that by your great and frequent Urgency you prevailed on me to
+publish a very loose and uncorrect Account of my Travels; with Direction
+to hire some young Gentlemen of either University to put them in Order,
+and correct the Style, as my Cousin Dampier did by my Advice, in his
+Book called A Voyage round the World. But I do not remember I gave you
+Power to consent that any thing should be omitted, and much less that any
+thing should be inserted: therefore, as to the latter, I do here renounce
+every thing of that Kind; particularly a Paragraph about her Majesty the
+late Queen Anne, of most pious and glorious Memory; although I did
+reverence and esteem her more than any of human Species. But you, or
+your Interpolator, ought to have considered, that as it was not my
+Inclination, so was it not decent to praise any Animal of our Composition
+before my Master Houyhnhnm: And besides the Fact was altogether false;
+for to my Knowledge, being in England during some Part of her Majesty's
+Reign, she did govern by a chief Minister; nay, even by two successively;
+the first whereof was the Lord of Godolphin, and the second the Lord of
+Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not. Likewise, in
+the Account of the Academy of Projectors, and several Passages of my
+Discourse to my Master Houyhnhnm, you have either omitted some
+material Circumstances, or minced or changed them in such a Manner, that
+I do hardly know mine own Work. When I formerly hinted to you
+something of this in a Letter, you were pleased to answer that you were
+afraid of giving Offense; that People in Power were very watchful over the
+Press, and apt not only to interpret, but to punish every thing which looked
+like an Innuendo (as I think you called it.) But pray, how could that which
+I spoke so many Years ago, and at about five Thousand leagues distance, in
+another Reign, be applied to any of the Yahoos who now are said to govern
+the Herd; especially at a time when I little thought on or feared the
+Unhappiness of living under them. Have not I the most reason to complain,
+when I see these very Yahoos carried by Houyhnhnms in a Vehicle, as if
+these were Brutes, and those the rational Creatures? And indeed, to avoid
+so monstrous and detestable a Sight was one principal Motive of my
+Retirement hither.
+
+Thus much I thought proper to tell you in Relation to yourself, and to the
+Trust I reposed in you.
+

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