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[inverted] I am happy to hear that Mary has begun the italian Grammar I think it will afford hear [sic] great amusement - it is just dinner time after dinner I mean to take a walk to M^rs Montagues & see the Chimney sweepers at dinner in her garden I have heard it is an amusing sight. I calld [sic] on M^r Guy again today He desired to be most kindly remberd [sic] to you

Adieu

May 1 1796

My very dear & good Bard

I am glad to hear that the spurs & my note arrived safe at Eartham, & I will begin this Epistle with by giving you an account of the success I met with in executing the commissions you gave me – the first thing after breakfast on Tuesday Morning, I went to Paines, & lo Evans told me that there was not a Copy of the Life of Lorenzo to be obtaind [sic] for love or money! but that there would be another edition publishd in about a month or six weeks times, so that Miss Poole must be patient for a little time while – from Paynes I crossd the Park to M^r Cratchrodes, whom I luckily found at home; He told me that he thought the Oxford Gentlemen would not put up any Monument to Sir W. ^m Jones & for a very good reason viz: because they are not