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Cowes, Isle of Wight,
29th Nov: 1824.

My dear Friend,

You must think me a very unworthy Correspondent, indeed, and in plain sober truth I am so, having contracted, during the long illness I suffered at the time of my return from the East, and indolence in the way of letter writing that nothing can conquer – The fact is that, it is no longer an easy matter to sit down and fill a quire of paper as I was, in days of yore, wont to do almost every day of my life, and it appears to me very improbable that I shall ever regain the facility with which I formerly kept up a most extensive Correspondence with many esteemed friends at a great distance –  But, be assured I have not, nor ever can, lose that warm & intense interest so long felt and expressed in every thing that 

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