Dear Dear Charlotte. If I had
wrote to you as often as I have thought
of you I should have written at
least once a day: I have not forgot
our walks, our poetical conversations &c,
and I hope my summers will be br
ightened by your xxxx society, some
part at least of each summer: at
Cossey, or at the seat wherever
it shall be that of which Pro=
=vidence shall appoint you to be
the mistress: I now look forward to
the seeing you in town: I flatter
myself you will bring with you
your best looks: xxx your fame is gone
before you, & I hear by other people
that fine things; for partial as I am
I am cautious of saying {^^{to others}} much
for fear it should appear like a {?pass}.

I suppose you have been reading,
drawing and musiking: these employ=
=ments have added wings to the Time:
I hope you have not meditated on
the grave subject it add with added
years &c: but have rather I hope
enjoy’d the sunshine of the mind: and
this kind of intellectual fine weather
depends more than is imagined upon
the person who and the endeavours of
the person who wishes to secure it.
I have no particular news or no=
=velty to fill my paper with: so you
must allow me to be stupid, xxand I
am entitled to the privilege of stupidity
by having a bad cold: the Tragical fate
of poor Wall has been a topic at
the fire-side at Cossey, I am glad I did
not know him: I have a

print or Two for you: the Collins
I so promised I cannot get: I
have read nothing very interesting
of late: The new play of Julia I
have not been to: I am more
assiduous at the opera than at
the Play-house: I believe L^dy
Belmore is not yet come to town:
Mr Edgecombe whom I thought had
conceived a partiality for your Friend
Sophia, and which I thought & xx
wished might have continued, But I
find by what he says that he has
transfer’d all his views to xxone
of the daughters at Blenheim where
the family are acting plays and he
is one of the performers: and I am
sure he will not meet with success in
that quarter: I suppose that you will
see the Wodehouses, they are gone
to Kimberley:
my love to your Mama &
your little neighbour: I hear
L^dy Dillon is co pretty well, she
complains of the her house, and
wishes very much to get into
another: I shall am to see her
next week and then I shall
write to Ldy Jerningham
Adieu

RJU

Green Street, Grosvenor Square

Dear Dear Charlotte. If I had
wrote to you as often as I have thought
of you I should have written at
least once a day: I have not forgot
our walks, our poetical conversations &c,
and I hope my summers will be br
ightened by your xxxx society, some
part at least of each summer: at
Cossey, or at the seat wherever
it shall be that of which Pro=
=vidence shall appoint you to be
the mistress: I now look forward to
the seeing you in town: I flatter
myself you will bring with you
your best looks: xxx your fame is gone
before you, & I hear by other people
that fine things; for partial as I am
I am cautious of saying {^^{to others}} much
for fear it should appear like a {?pass}.

I suppose you have been reading,
drawing and musiking: these employ=
=ments have added wings to the Time:
I hope you have not meditated on
the grave subject it add with added
years &c: but have rather I hope
enjoyed the sunshine of the mind: and
this kind of intellectual fine weather
depends more than is imagined upon
the person who and the endeavours of
the person who wishes to secure it.
I have no particular news or no=
=velty to fill my paper with: so you
must allow me to be stupid, xxand I
am entitled to the privilege of stupidity
by having a bad cold: the Tragical fate
of poor Wall has been a topic at
the fire-side at Cossey, I am glad I did
not know him: I have a

print or Two for you: the Collins
I so promised I cannot get: I
have read nothing very interesting
of late: The new play of Julia I
have not been to: I am more
assiduous at the opera than at
the Play-house: I believe L^dy
Belmore is not yet come to town:
Mr Edgecombe whom I thought had
conceived a partiality for your Friend
Sophia, and which I thought & xx
wished might have continued, But I
find by what he says that he has
transferred all his views to xxone
of the daughters at Blenheim where
the family are acting plays and he
is one of the performers: and I am
sure he will not meet with success in
that quarter: I suppose that you will
see the Wodehouses, they are gone
to Kimberley:
my love to your Mama &
your little neighbour: I hear
L^dy Dillon is co pretty well, she
complains of the her house, and
wishes very much to get into
another: I shall am to see her
next week and then I shall
write to Ldy Jerningham
Adieu

RJU

Green Street, Grosvenor Square