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Buit Dandelion, dearer Flower!
of Virtue more refined!
New Lustre gives, with magic Power,
To Julia'^s radiant Mind—

Much as I am charmed with the dear dandelion it shall not prevent me from paying due respect to yr Father^s new Periwig – Tell my good old Friend I esteem the Curls of it above the Tresses of Berenice because I consider them as a joyous Constellation which announces to me an approaching delightful event viz: yr Arrival at Eartham which I flatter myself I shall have the pleasure of shewing you Both in the Course of July –

We return home on Saturday next & I do not think of moving again from that favourite Retirement for many many Months.