



[LETTER 



FYFIELD, near ANDOVER, 

 Feb. 10, I770. 1 



DEAR SIR, I have had no leisure as yet to answer 

 your last friendly and communicative letter : nor shall I 

 have any opportunity while I continue on my visit. My 

 present business is to beg of you to write me word how 

 long M r - Pennant may be supposed to stay in town ; 

 because the end of this month will be a very inconvenient 

 time for me to undertake a journey to London. I have 

 a great desire to have some conversation with a Gentleman 

 that I have regularly corresponded with for some years; 2 

 and should propose to myself an additional pleasure from 

 meeting you both together; but it will be difficult, I 

 fear, for me to get to town at this season. Pray present. 

 my humble respects to M r - Pennant, and tell him I 

 acknowledge that I am indebted to him for a very 

 kind letter. 



In a parcel (which lately went up to my Brother) I 



1 In the MS. this imperfect Letter follows Letter IV. [R. B. S.] 

 8 Cf. note to vol. i. p. 146. [R. B. S.] 

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