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I was happier than Dr Heighington, or his Wife Lydia; however I find being from you agrees as ill with me, as if I never had felt your absence before: I have composed a hymn about it mighty moving, & thrum it perpetually, for I've changed my harp into a harpsicord & am as melodious, as the Day is long: I am sorry, I can give you no further Information about Mr Cornwallis, there was a Congregation held yesterday, but nothing further done about his degree for the present: I received a long letter mighty pretty, in Latin, from West yesterday; partly about butter'd Turnips, partly about an Eclipse, that I understood no more than the Man in the Moon; he desired his love to you in English:
I wish a great deal of happiness to you, a good journey to Houghton, & a more entertaining Companion, than