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I was yesterday told, that Turner (the Professor of Modern History here) was dead in London. if it be true; I conclude, it is now too late to begin asking for it: but we had (if you remember) some Conversation on that Head at Twickenham; & as you have probably found some Opportunity to mention it to Mr W: since, I would gladly know his Thoughts about it. what he can do, he only can tell us: what he will do, if he can, is with me no Question. if he could find a proper Channel; I certainly might ask it with as much, or more Propriety, than any one in this Place. if any thing were done, it should be as private as possible; for if the People, who have any Sway here, could prevent it, I think they would most zealously. I am not sorry for writing you a little interested Letter: perhaps it is a Stratagem: the only one I had left, to provoke an Answer from you, & revive our – Correspondence, shall I call it? there are many particulars relating to you, that have long interested me more than twenty Matters of this Sort, but you have had no Regard for my Curiosity: and yet it is something, that deserves a better Name! I don't so much as know your Direction, or that of Mr Whithed.