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[Page 53] 

mind had become so resigned to the will of Heaven – that it would be calm & composed, I know her too well ever to doubt – There is much to reconcile you all to this last blow, and you will derive great consolation in learning that your dear brother Edward also views the calamity in the same wise & rational manner – I fortunately received the melancholy tidings some days before the receipt of your letters to Edward, or of those to Sir Thom[as] Farquhar & myself, and I broke it to Edward in a manner, with which he expressed himself pleased, and this he will, no doubt mention, in his own letters to his family, by this conveyance. 
 

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