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this instant proving the Truth of these verses, by devouring the pages of yr Poem with enthusiastic avidity – He will carry it to yr Bookseller today, & perhaps may be able to insert a few lines concerning the Success of his Commission in the parcel with this Scrawl, which I am forced to close – once more my dear Sister let me entreat you to believe me truely sensible of yr Kindness towards me –

Say every kind thing for me to your Father & be assured you will be ever dear to yr grateful affectionate Brother

WH

I find that I must be in Sussex on Sunday & perhaps again \in/ London in the course of next week on some Business still more important to me than my own which you will believe when I tell you tis in the service of Longinus - I must resign the Hope of Litchfield again till Spring – adio