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.