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the trifle of 5 Guineas a year towards his Clothes – I consulted Cowper on my Idea – He thought it a happy one for both the Lads - & spoke so much in favor of Tom the Elder & his Parents that I brought Him \hither/ both as a Preceptor & a Pupil to the lesser Tom & I think the Project seems to answer my expectation, as the Boys are very good Friends, & contribute I trust to Each others Improvement — Tom the Elder is I think with some singularities a very good Lad – He is an Oddity in his Person & manners & puts me a little in Mind of our little Friend Flaxman – If He makes as valuable a Man I shall have great reason to be proud of my young charge – His age is between 14 & 15 but as He has something between deformity & dwarfishness in his Person He is not so much taller than Tom the little as you might expect — But it is Time to end my long Story of the two Toms which I must not do without adding they are both well – Tom the little is highly flattered by yr kind attention to his Portrait & adds his Love & best wishes to those

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