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interruption & I entirely agree with you in thinking it most serviceable & agreable now that the water is colder - but in all weather it makes me sleepy & having at present neither materials or invention I make a very insipid correspondent.

Our party are chiefly cardplayers & cardplayers have rarely a taste for reading or ∖talents for/ conversation. I therefore begin to find my evenings very long as we do not sup till half an hour after nine - but after supper we sing duets which is pleasant & I find my voice strengthens by exercise as well as by bathing. Is Cowper musical & in what degree? When I read the Task again (which I intend doing on my return to Derby) I may give a guess whether the has the feelings perceptions of Mason, or whether like you he loves a song or whether like Doctor Darwin he denies the existence