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& all farther negociations must now depend on themselves for you \know/ My Dear Freind [sic] illeg how I am engaged at present

pray when you have an opportunity present respectfull [sic] & particular thanks to M:^r M:^rs Guy & their young Ladies & Gentlemen, for their extraordinary kindness & attention to M:^rs Flaxman & myself, I have looked out the drawings from which I intend to send M^r: Guy, copies,

now for my friend & fellow Student Thomas, tell him we love him, think of him, & hope Sea that bathing will strengthen his outward \man/ whilst he is forming his inward by occasional attention to the Authors, we know he is happy whilst in the Company of his Dear Bard, pray remember me kindly to Socket, Mary & Kill eé & Eat eé

I have the honor to remain

Dear Sir
your most obliged & affectionate Servant
John Flaxman

To Robin Goodfellow from Titania greeting —

My dear Tom

We all arriv'd in Buckingham Street safe & Happy, thank God! tho not without a sorry headach on the part of Titania, I have in one of my nervous fits made a friend of Burn's vow never to visit Eartham more, for Indeed I do not like to leave it!— Make all the haste you can to us my dearest Boy for without you the house seems very lonely, even Tom Kitten mews for you & [?]Woustrep{?] is become Obstreperous, the Goddess of Wisdom herself has suffer'd from your absence, all