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Chadderton
July 7th 1814
Sir
I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th inst. with the contents coming safe to hand yesterday, and am very much obliged to you for it and return you many thanks. I must also acknowledge your expressing "may good fortune attend me" acts as a stimulus to exertions in pushing forward. Though I am not very sanguine of being so successful as others would make me believe, yet in almost any other person's hand than mine, I have reason to believe it would turn to good advantage. All depends with me getting a fit person to take charge of it. I well know myself unfit for it - nor have I ever had the best inclination of attempting it. Nature recoils at the very thought of it, though my acquaintances here tell me I may soon getth get the better of this aversion, but however plausible they may argue, their persuations will never have the effect. I have as it were secluded from the world, and all my time is taken up in endeavouring to preserve what I have collected; this forms a wide contrast