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as soon as you my kind Friend come to town we shall quickly finish the preliminary Consultations to the commencement with our mutual pupil – our literary consultations shall continue as long as you shall find that I have matter for Your purpose, or can indicate where it is to be found — the existing reason alluded to in my last, was M:^rs H: of whose residence in London I was ignorant ‘till some time after our arrival, and now that whole passage of my letter will be more intelligible than before — this was begun some days since when I had hopes that we should have been able to have set our house in order and have made it ready for our habitation by this day, but things have turned out differently, for the attendance which I have been obliged to give at the Custom House the extreme severity of the weather, and the many things I have had to attend \to/ will still I fear keep us out of our house till the latter end of this week — in the mean time I was willing to let you know the present State of things and to repeat how very happy we shall be to see our Great, and little, Friend in