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Sunday Morn

My dear Eliza

The Fairy & I are much obliged to you for your kind & chearful Letters - He is highly pleased with the billet doux from his little dulcinea, & at this Moment Engaged in replying to it as his Titiana wishes, in French —

You have probably been surprized, as I was, in hearing this Week of our old acquaintance Zelma, whose existence I had almost forgotten — the first Intelligence I received concerning her starting up after a sleep of some years, came from my young divine, who breakfasting at a Coffee-House, read accidentally in the papers that this little opera, which I had sold you know long ago to the Manager for the sake of devoting such a Monument