Boston November 26th 1768 Sir,

I have Been here a Week Expecting to See you In Town at the Tryal of our Whale Cause which is to Come on on Monday morning next and If this Reaches you Soon Enough I should Be Glad that you Would attend. I should have wrote sooner But was Told you would be here this week at the Superiour Court. If you are not here by three of the Clock after noon I am afraid it will be Too Late.1 I am Sir your Humble Sevt.

JAMES OTIS

RC ; addressed: "For Robert Treet Paine Esqr. In Taunton These"; endorsed.

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RTP notes in his diary that he was attending the Inferior Court at Taunton on Nov. 29 and was not in Boston again until Jan. 1769.