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Sept:^r 11^th 96
Buckingham Street

Dear and Kind Friend

M:^rs Flaxman has been so much occupied in domestic concerns since her return from the Isle of Wight that She has not had time to answer your kind Note but that this may be delayed no longer I have undertaken to write for her; she is not less grateful than myself for your labours to serve her brother and for the invitation to Eartham in which however I must not indulge my self notwithstanding the gratification which I forego by the refusal, many reasons unite their force to make such an excursion improper at present, the first is that thank God ! my health has no need of it, my Studies just now require particular attention, besides that a very large Freight of Marble is just come to England in consequence of the destrution of our factory at Leghorn and the last freight likely to come for some years