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My dear Eliza

I congratulate you on the salutary effect that you have so soon experienced from a few dips & hope a little perseverance in this reviving exercise will restore you to the Comfort of perfect Health. — I seize my pen at the early Hour of seven this Morning that I may dispatch my devoirs to you before I attend the beloved Painter in one of his little Excursions to the Nereids of Felpham – as the gentle Rhapson [Rhapsom?] has his Church to attend in the Character of Clerk He can only wait on his Bathing Machine at an early Hour we are therefore to set forth for the sea as soon as we taken [sic] a light & hasty Breakfast – but while the Kettle is travelling to the Table I must reply to some points in yr last kind Epistle

The Caro Pittore desires to be kindly