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may find I think the noblest Field for Exertion & one of the best roads I know to satisfactory Emolument & to real Honour —
The Botanic Garden will I think afford you great pleasure - it is assuredly an admirable Poem & its Beauties are so varied that I think the most fastidious of Readers must in the Course of it find something to his Taste —
I promised you as you truly tell me an account of my late visit –- much may be said in merely saying it was a visit to a Brother Bard – the enchanting Cowper! But I will give you a more diffuse History of the various delights it afforded me in my next — at present an oppressive Head ach [sic] renders me peculiarly unfit for scribbling – but I would not let the post of this day depart without without thanking you for yr amicable Letter - adieu - Tom joins me in every kind wish to you – Believe me Ever yr affectionate H