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Monday June 25
1792
My dear Eliza
It is indeed my opinion, that a quickness, in declaring it, adds to the favor of any kind concession, for which a tender spirit is waiting with anxiety — I am therefore particularly obliged by the celerity, with which you impart to me your kind & generous determination to comply with my request. — As I approve dispatch in acknowledging no less than in conferring an Obligation, I should have return’d you my Thanks by the post of yesterday, had not an accident prevented the arrival of your Letter \here,/ on the day it arrived at Chichester.
I now thank you speedily for the relief you have thus afforded to my Mind; & I thank you sincerely, in spite of the little tartness of Expression, with which you seem to