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Friendship for Him I have (between ourselves) laboured hard to revive with beneficial effects but I fear not with the success I had for some time reason to hope) as a relation to Ld Chancellor Cowper He had a lucrative Post but from Tenderness of Spirit & a peculiar Situation of Mind between excess of Modesty & the Horrors of Melancholy He was obliged to withdraw from the World & found an Asylum in the House of a Divine at Huntington – a Mr Unwin who was soon afterwards killed by a Fall from his Horse – His Widow intreated the interesting Cowper not to quit his Asylum & with a sublimity of Friendship that would have made her a demi Goddess at least among the antients She has ever since presided