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Dec 2

My dear Eliza

Your commission I executed with the utmost dispatch by sending the letter you inclosed on the day after its arrival – & as it contained so generous an offer from the Parents I dare say it has proved consolatory to the afflicted –

You desire to be informed concerning the real situation of my most dear Brother of Parnassus the engaging Cowper – I cannot imagine from what circumstance you supposed him a divine – His Profession was the Law & He was a Fellow Student & intimate associate at the Temple with our late Chancellor (whose obsolete