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most friendly letter – I am infinitely indebted to you for thinking so much on the affair of Cisso – you judge admirably on the Subject, & I perfectly submitted to yr Opinion, that my project, however brilliant in Idea, would not succeed in execution –

I admire Boothby's decanal Squib & so I do, believe me, your maidenly Squib that maked the Trio, & if I did not tell you so before, I deserve to be whipped with the most thorny sprigs of your rosy Garland

your not hearing from Sir John must procceed from some foolish Accident, like that, which lately agitated me, namely the wandering of one of Eliza's Letters to Chester by a mistake of the Post —

I rejoice that Mr Whalley is coming