I shall be very happy to contribute to your garden:  and if you will let me have exact notice in February how to send the shrubs, they shall not fail you; nor any thing else by which I can pay you any part of my debts.  I am much pleased with the Wolsey and Cromwell, and beg to thank you and the gentleman from whom they came.  Mr. Tyson’s etchings will be particulary acceptable.  I did hope to have seen or heard of him in October.  Pray tell him he is a visit in my debt, and that I will trust him no longer than to next summer.  Mr. Bentham, I find, one must trust and trust without end.  It is pity so good a sort of man should be so faithless.  Make my best compliments, however, to him and to my kind host and hostess.

I found my dear old blind friend at Paris perfectly well, and am returned so myself.  London is very sickly, and full of bilious fevers, that have proved fatal to several persons, and in my Lord Gower’s family have even seemed contagious.  The weather is uncommonly hot, and we want frost to purify the air.

I need not say, I suppose, that the names scratched out in my list are of such prints as I have got since I printed it, and therefore what I no longer want.  If Mr. Jackson only stays at Cambridge till the prints drop into his mouth, I shall never have them.  If he would take the trouble of going to Bury, Norwich, Ely, Huntingdon, and such great towns, nay, look about in inns, I do not doubt but he would find at least some of them.  He should be no loser by taking pains for me; but I doubt he chooses to be a great gainer without taking any.  I shall not pay for any that are not in my list; but I ought not to trouble you, dear Sir, with these particulars.  It is a little your own fault, for you have spoiled me.

Mr. Essex distresses me by his civility.  I certainly would not have given him that trouble, if I had thought he would not let me pay him.  Be so good as to thank him for me, and to let me know if there is any other way I could return the obligation.  I hope, at least, he will make me a visit at Strawberry Hill, whenever he comes westward.  I shall be very impatient to see you, dear Sir, both there and at Milton.  Your faithful humble servant.

(1102) Now first printed, from the original in the British Museum.-E.

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