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I am happy to hear that Mary has begun the italian Grammar I think it will afford hear [sic] great amusement - it is just dinner time after dinner I mean to take a walk to M<sup>rs</sup> Montagues & see the Chimney sweepers at dinner in her garden I have heard it is an amusing sight. I calld [sic] on M<sup>r</sup> Guy again today He desired to be most kindly remberd [sic] to you | I am happy to hear that Mary has begun the italian Grammar I think it will afford hear [sic] great amusement - it is just dinner time after dinner I mean to take a walk to M<sup>rs</sup> Montagues & see the Chimney sweepers at dinner in her garden I have heard it is an amusing sight. I calld [sic] on M<sup>r</sup> Guy again today He desired to be most kindly remberd [sic] to you | ||
<p style="text-align:right;">Adieu</p> | <p style="text-align:right;">Adieu</p> | ||
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<p style="text-align:right;">May 1 1796</p> | <p style="text-align:right;">May 1 1796</p> | ||
My very dear & good Bard | My very dear & good Bard | ||
I am glad to hear that the spurs & my note arrived safe at Eartham, & I will begin this Epistle <strike>with</strike> by giving you an account of the success I met with in executing the commissions you gave me – the first thing after breakfast on Tuesday Morning, I went to Paines, & lo Evans told me that there was not a Copy of the Life of Lorenzo to be obtaind [sic] for love or money! but that there would be another edition publishd in about a month or six weeks times, so that Miss Poole must be patient for a little <strike>time</strike> while – from Paynes I crossd the Park to M<sup>r </sup>Cratchrodes, whom I luckily found at home; He told me that he thought the Oxford Gentlemen would not put up any Monument to Sir W. <sup>m</sup> Jones & for a very good reason viz: because they are not | I am glad to hear that the spurs & my note arrived safe at Eartham, & I will begin this Epistle <strike>with</strike> by giving you an account of the success I met with in executing the commissions you gave me – the first thing after breakfast on Tuesday Morning, I went to Paines, & lo Evans told me that there was not a Copy of the Life of Lorenzo to be obtaind [sic] for love or money! but that there would be another edition publishd in about a month or six weeks times, so that Miss Poole must be patient for a little <strike>time</strike> while – from Paynes I crossd the Park to M<sup>r </sup>Cratchrodes, whom I luckily found at home; He told me that he thought the Oxford Gentlemen would not put up any Monument to Sir W. <sup>m</sup> Jones & for a very good reason viz: because they are not | ||
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[inverted] I am happy to hear that Mary has begun the italian Grammar I think it will afford hear [sic] great amusement - it is just dinner time after dinner I mean to take a walk to Mrs Montagues & see the Chimney sweepers at dinner in her garden I have heard it is an amusing sight. I calld [sic] on Mr Guy again today He desired to be most kindly remberd [sic] to you
Adieu
May 1 1796
My very dear & good Bard
I am glad to hear that the spurs & my note arrived safe at Eartham, & I will begin this Epistle with by giving you an account of the success I met with in executing the commissions you gave me – the first thing after breakfast on Tuesday Morning, I went to Paines, & lo Evans told me that there was not a Copy of the Life of Lorenzo to be obtaind [sic] for love or money! but that there would be another edition publishd in about a month or six weeks times, so that Miss Poole must be patient for a little time while – from Paynes I crossd the Park to Mr Cratchrodes, whom I luckily found at home; He told me that he thought the Oxford Gentlemen would not put up any Monument to Sir W. m Jones & for a very good reason viz: because they are not