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LETT. LXX. The fame to the fame, defcribing ber Arrival at Kimbolton Castle, with a Sketch of the Place. Nov. 22.

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The fame to the fame; fhort Defcription of Paris and the Environs. July

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1771. LETT. LXXIII. The fame to the fame; Sketch of Switzerland, and the Carnival Time at Venice. Jan. 26, 1772.

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LETTER I.

W. SHENSTONE, Efq. to

The Leafowes,

My dearest Friend,

T is a very furprising and a

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Nov. 20, 1762.

cruel Thing,

me to have

that you will not fuppofe been out of Order, after fuch a Neglect of writing, as can hardly be excufed on any other Score. I cannot, indeed, lay Claim to what the Doctors call an acute Difeafe: but Dizzinefs of Head, and Depreffion of Spirits re at

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best no trivial Maladies, and great Difcouragements to writing. There is a lethargic State of Mind that deferves your Pity, not your Anger; though it may require the Hellebore of fharp Reproof. Why then did you not apply this pungent Remedy, before the Disease was gone fo far? But feriously, I pass too much of that Sort of Time, wherein I am neither well nor ill; and being unable to exprefs myself at large, am averfe to do fo by Halves. From the ftrange Laconicism of your Letter, I am really in Doubt, whether you are not angry at me; and yet had rather this were owing to Anger that may fubfide, than to any perfevering Fondness you may have for fuch unusual Brevity. Should the latter become habitual, I fhall fee the Letters of a Genius dwindle to " per first will advise the Needful.” God forbid fuch, a Transformation!

Your former Letter, to my great Confufion, was dated Sept. 18. Let me fpeak first to fome few Parts of it-The Lampreys arrived fafe, and were as good as I ever tafted; but every Time I tafted them, I wanted you; and you are miftaken,

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