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Sir
When you receive a second letter from me on the subject of your expedition you will perhaps think you have met with an exceeding troublesome follow and one who,like a sturdy beggar is not willing to take a civil answer but you will pardon me if I do not clearly understand yours.
In the note I recd from you this Morning you say that you think more benefit may accrue to me from persuing my plan of entering myself at Cambridge than in going on so long & tedious a voyage as that you are at present engaged in - am I to take this as a possitive refusal or no ---- Your politeness would not perhaps allow you to say the Performance I had sent you was too bad to promise any hopes of my being serviceable to you on that Voiage ---Your delicacy perhaps told you I might possibly be a good deal hurt by a Denial -- couched in these terms ---- I am apt to believe this was the case: tho' perhaps an earnest desire of undertaking the Voiage would persuade me to construe it otherwise.