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a thousand Things to say – our Friend Romney left us on Monday last - & we still lament his departure. — How soon the Head may reach you, I know not, as we must wait for a Frame & glass from London, before it can venture to set forth on its Travels - I am charged by the Friendly Painter to make a thousand apologies for its Failings – to say that it is a sorry Sketch executed with bad materials & in that diminuitive size to which his Hand is so little accustomed that He could not command his pencil & & c &c

I return to you Mr Pratts [sic] penitential Letter, & I doubt not but \you/ have been gracious enough to sign his Pardon —

Pray tell yr good Father that