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My Dear Sir
All your Relations and friends are perfectly well. I saw Mr. & Mrs. Hodgkinson this morning, they desird me to give You their best wishes.
I have recieved [received] both yours. I shall take good care of Grevile's stones, when they come. I saw Mr. Hutton this day, cleared up his doubts and questions about Fingal's cave. The french man (his correspondent) imagined it had been Fingal's study, and that he might have wrote some favorite Symbols in the walls. I made Hutton happy, by letting him know that you had not forgot the gun musquet [musket].
You remember, a rumour about Mr Coleman being ill-used in the street, a little before you set out. The affair has turn'd out very serious, to poor Jannock of the Museum, who was one of the Dramatis personae. Nothing is now so much talked of; in all companies. The story as told by them that seem to be most impartial, is as follows. J---K some years ago found out a girl, he grew fond of, and has ever since kept as his mistress. She was clever and