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My dear Sister

Pray suppose me to have said to you every thing [sic] that you can wish to be said in the name of the great artist, whom you have honoured so highly, & who is enchanted with your elegant Verses!—

I should not have delayed telling you that I possessed the 1^st copy, & had Dispatched the second, Had I not been too much indisposed to scribble even a line to you — I almost began to think, that instead of our meeting at Litchfield, I should make my first Bow to you in Elysium, but I am