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Eartham Wednesday
Jan 10 1782
My dear Sister
I devote the first minutes of this Morning to the pleasing office of thanking you for an enchanting Pacquet of verse & prose, which reached Eartham last night - so far from convincing me, that your poetic Imagination is exhausted your lovely little Poem has confirmed me in the Idea, that no poetical Task is too great for you. – She \who/ could write such spirited lines in the drawling unpoetic motion of a returning Chaise, & on such a subject, must never think of pleading the want of poetic Powers, as an Excuse for Indolence.
In Truth you have all the Qualities of Mind & Heart, that constitute the true Poet; & I shall never cease exciting you to the full exertion of yr delightful Talents, in some great & noble Poem, that may afford you an ample Field for the display of all