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to sustain — if you think me unreasonable in what I require, I am the more oblig’d to you for granting a request, the propriety & Justice of which you have not yet discern’d —

As you think the Coast of Lincolnshire more Eligible for you than Scarborough, I hope you may find upon it such an obscure & commodious bathing place, as you wish for this Summer - as to the next, I think it by no means improbable that I may, by that Time, rest so peacably [sic] under the Earth, that I shall not be able either kindly or unkindly to obstruct or direct your movements upon it — While I remain above Ground, it will be my Wish & my Endeavour to soothe and tranquillise your Spirits by the Intercourse of kind Letters, & to furnish such little recruits to your slender Revenue, as Fortune (if she will but smile on me a little after all her Frowns) may enable me to supply.—adieu.- God bless & direct you in all things for the best & as I think He has graciously done in your recent determination.— The dear Boy is well & joins in every kind wish to you with

Yr affectionate
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I had not heard of Mrs Beridges death - She is indeed as you observe a severe Loss to Mrs Gladwin—adieu—How do you like Mr Twigge? I wish He had a name less ludicrous