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Monday

My Dear Henry

Pray desire Nicole ¹ to bring the double-green Candlestick with Shades which was used every E^g in the little Dining Room, & to ask Dixie N^o 3 Bond Street, for my new Spectacles he was to make.

It was quite dark when I got here yesterday Ev^g I was so warm & comfortable in my own carriage all the way – & by an uncommon caprice of Fortune was placed exactly in the middle of two trains till we got to Swindon, the safest place I could be in. Probably there they detached the Cirencester Train.

I was hardly out of the carriage before Sophie asked me with a face of alarm if it was true that you are so ill – M^r Sotheron ² had called here in the Morning to enquire & seemed She said very much concerned What can have given rise to such a report?

This House looks so comfortable so clean & so spacious! I cannot help walking about it & exclaiming to myself Every minute how very comfortable! It certainly looks to the greatest advantage after the blacks of London. The Sun is shining as bright as possible

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If you are still constant to coffee you had better bring some