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story. I anticipate the great pleasure I shall have 
in seeing you and Mrs. Smith there. 
My friends are too partial to me: I can never 
hope to answer their expectations; but it is flat- 
tering to find the King taking the lead in bearing 
testimony to me, and all the friends of my intimacy 
joining in the same strain. 
Adieu, dear friend ; and always be assured that I 
am, and shall be, as truly yours as ever. 
I have not time to go on with your book yet. 
When I can frank, you shall hear from me. 
Yours ever, 
_S. GoopENouGH. 
J. E. Smith to the Bishop of Carlisle. 
My dear Lord, Norwich, March 28, 1808. 
I have waited, and hoped, and despaired, and 
hoped again (but now I despair), that you would 
perform your very kind promise, “as soon as you 
could frank,” of letting me hear from you. 
In despair then of the speedy performance of this 
promise, I venture to take up my pen, trusting that 
this will find your Lordship somewhere or somehow, 
and that I may express how ardently I wish to pay 
my congratulations in person. How happy should 
I be to see Rose Castle and Carlisle, where I have 
been so many years since! I hope to visit my sister 
Martyn at Liverpool this summer. I must quote 
a passage in one of her letters: “If the new Bishop 
of Carlisle or any of his family should pass this 
way, I should be happy to spread my cloak in their 
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