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a portrait! which I am sure you would have painted with all the Grace Spirit & Feeling which so happily distinguish the Romnean Pencil -

Apropos of that charming Artist! Has He sent your Picture on a visit to Litchfield? – Longinus is again absent from London & I have not heard whether your fair Resemblance reached even the Metropolis in Safety –

I wish you much pleasure from yr expected visitants - in the midst of yr social joys devote a few minutes at least to give yr distant Brother an account of Them - Farewell I must throw down my Pen being not only prest by Time, but scribbling under the weight of a most oppressive Head-ach

Farewell! Be Thou from sich Oppression free!
May Pain unwelcome Guest fly far from Thee!
Except that Pain, the Harbinger of joy!
which ushers into Light your negro Boy!—

Theres [sic] a Benediction for you from yr affectionate Brother

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