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I have been looking about for the Scaphandre
I have been looking about for the Scaphandre, my dear

Sam, but cannot find it any where - I have a sort of

a half notion of your having it yourself.

I do not recollect saying any thing to you in my last

letter or any letter since I saw you about any uneasiness -

Throug God's mercy I have no particular uneasiness that I

Perhaps if you are very good and the Marine Dictionary

costs no more than a guinea, I may let you have it.

Have there been no letters yet from M rs W. besides what

I saw, and what you mentioned?

I don't believe I have ever had the grace to make an

apology to my dear M rs D. for opening that letter of M rs W.

that I sent: but I looked upon it as included in the general

engagement & permission.

Now M r N. is with you I suppose you will take the advantage

and consult him about your Pelican. Poor thing it has

lain along time neglected in your garret, like a Pelican in the wilderness.

I have been told there have been two attacks upon D r Adam

Smith by the godly, for testifying that David Hume died in peace

There was a little grinning-prig Oxford Parson t'other day at

Q.S.P. of whom Madam asked whether he had seen the

answer to the Humean impiety; meaning one of those.

I met Your dear friend D r Chelsom deed at Q.S.P. last Thursday.

He talked in magnificent terms of the character of a Christian Divine

Talking of Parson Horne's quitting the Church for the Law, he took notice

of it as somthing singular: it was the first instance he said

he had known of a man's quitting the higher profession for the

lower.

May 6. 1777.

Linc. Inn.

Make my Compliments to M r & M rs Nairne —

Love to M rs D.

Desire Inv. if ever she happens not to know what to

do with herself, to take pen in hand, & give me the history of Patty D.'s departure.
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