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Thank you heartily for your Polish news
Thank you heartily for your Polish news — It gives me the most pleasing prospects — I long to talk it over with you — I don't believe it signifies any thing my sending duty to my Mistress — I would venture a small wager you have not dared to show her either of my former letters, for fear she should haze you to let her come.

Fetcham Wedn. y 18 th 1776 or rather Leatherhead — where I have been breakfasting with Wilson in his way to Town. I write from the Swan, which ought to afford a man a better quill than this miserable stick —

Come or not come write at all events on Thursday I shall have your letter on Friday morning between 7 and 8.
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    Alas, poor Sam. why mopest thou? I for my part

    have-done moping. Q.S.P. is perfectly well satisfied

    with the letter I transcribed for you: and they both

    join in telling me that considering what

    mine was to her, it is full as much as I had

    reason to hope for.

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    we have settled it. Wilson is very desirous of taking

    another farewell of his friend Mercer. I am now fit

    to wean: I want no more nursing. He was half resolved

    therefore at any rate to have gone to London

    in a few days for about a week. When I was in

    town last M rs L. was pulling me to pieces to go down

    to them at Mill Hill on Saturday to help keep M r

    L's birthday. Go therefore I will: and for that purpose

    I will be in town on Friday. Wilson will go to town

    the same day. I shall return be back from Mill Hill on Sunday

    morning. Do thou meet me in town: and on Monday

    we will come together to this place. You will then occupy

    Wilson's bed. We will upon that consideration

    give him leave to stay in town for a few days. It would

    certainly be better if we could be all three together all the

    time. However, part of the time you are here we will: &

    for that part we must make shift for lodging some how

    or some how.

    Q.S.P. will be here on Friday morning to breakfast &

    to fetch home a Hawk I have got for them. When they set

    off on their return I shall set off for Town. I was over

    at Ri hm n.. Park on Monday. My Father drank your health

    by the name of "poor Sam". This I knew not how to account for.

    He did not tell me of his having heard from you.

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    by return of the post. I shall

    by that means have your letter on Saturday.

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    shall be at

    Mill hill

    so I should

    not receive it till the time you might come yourself.

    However if a letter would come sooner

    than you, write.

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    upon Wilson. His words are like the words of the wise

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    Description: -mentioned or to her having taken something amiss in my

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    I have just received a letter of which the following

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    Birchington Aug. 15 th 1776.

    Sir

    Having been absent from Birchington

    some time, your obliging favo rs did not come to hand

    so soon as they otherwise wou'd. Many circumstances render

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    Sir your humble Servant

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