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<p align="right">Derby April 28<sup>t</sup>h 1792</p>
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<p align="right">Derby April 28<sup>th</sup> 1792</p>
  
 
My dear H
 
My dear H

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Derby April 28th 1792

My dear H

I can hardly allow myself time to thank you for your kind & entertaining letter, which nevertheless merits my warmest thanks so eager am I to tell you how I was astonishd [sic] this morning.

I was dressing languid as usual when my maid who had gone down stairs on an errand returned with information that M.r Gough had called & bad my Landlady would tell me M.rs Beridge was just married to M.r Twigg. I never recollect to have felt equally the force of surprize where surprize was the only sensation that could agitate me – for I have seen M.r Twigg (& so as I recollect have you) & from the little I have seen, I have given him credit for that partiality which has been shewn him by Mason. His character is excellent