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Dummer

n^r Basingstoke
Mar. 5.

My dear Sir,

I think you will be glad to hear that Charles is going on quite satisfactorily with all his lessons, and also that he appears quite strong & well, and has turned out quite active in games, more especially football and running as these have been our late amusements.

I think that he has made good progress in verses, and now can write both Elegiacs & Lyrics upon an easy subject with some degree of poetry, and without much trouble to himself. He has been construing some Livy this half-year, as well as the Epistles of Horace, and parts of Herodotus and the Odyssey for Greek Lessons, of course I do not mean that he can do either perfectly, but certainly he g translates with as much sense, and good English as the generality of school-boys –

I have also reports of his attention to French, and he has much improved in Arithmetic, and I think of trying him and two others with the commencement of Algebra, that they may not hereafter think “x + y” very unintelligible characters –

M^rs Williams desires to join in Compts to M^rs Talbot and I am, Dear Sir,

Yours very truly
James. A. Williams –

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H. Fox Talbot Esq^re
Greta Bank
Keswick