To Mary Berry (1795) [ Practices ]
… me to Molesey for Tuesday next, and I will certainly go, as they are of yr acquaintance. This morning I received yr letter, and have great comfort in hearing that the fountain agrees with you; how I shall applaud myself if you find … to correct my hand, for my writing was grown so small and so close, that I myself could scarce read over my last letter; and tho' your eyes are fifty years younger, I believe you found difficulty to decypher it. At present I have so … have such inveterate distractions. Thus far I had written after breakfast, but tho' I then received yr Monday's letter I could not finish mine, for I had promised Mrs. Doyley to show my house to her, Mrs. Sloane, and a dowager, Miss …
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