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Julian
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I should not have made this little Journey to Town, if I had not imagined the Situation of your Affairs (after the Loss you have lately had) would have prevented your Design of coming to Cambridge. the Pleasure I have here, is not sufficient, I am sure, to ballance a much slighter, than I shall have in seeing you again: my Stay therefore, will at farthest not be longer than Wednesday next, when [your] Business will be over, & we shall have time, I hope, to ma[ke up] in some Degree for so many Year's Separation.
My Thanks to Mr Brown for his Letter, and I wi[ll trou]ble you to tell him, I see no Reason why the Person he mentions should refuse the Proposal made him. he must necessarily & I think, in Prudence sooner or later enter into the Profession, that qualifies him for it. & this is perhaps as creditable a Way of doing it, as ever will offer, besides that it need not oblige him to any thing he dislikes, & may perhaps lead to great Advantages ... if he be return'd. I need not tell you that [I am]