Muft we mourn for the Queen of Denmark? How fhall I do for my black cloaths which you have in the cheft?

Make my compliments to every body.

I am, &c.

I dined in a large company at a diffenting bookfeller's yesterday, and difputed against toleration with one Doctor Meyer,

LETTER CII,

To Mrs. THRAL E,

DEAREST LADY,

ON

May 22, 1775.

NE thing or other still hinders me, befides what is perhaps the great hindrance, that I have no great mind to go. Boswell went

away at two this morning.

goes this week. B

L- I suppose got two-and-forty

guineas in fees while he was here. He has,

power of bringing it into play. He had read before he died the Hebrew Bible eleven times over. Peyton knew many modern languages, but was kept from rifing in the world by domeftic miferies,

by

by his wife's persuasion and mine, taken down a prefent for his mother-in-law.

Pray let me know how the breath does. I hope there is no lafting evil to be feared. Take great care of yourself. Why did you take cold? Did your fhoes? you pump into

I am not forry that you read Bofwell's journal. Is it not a merry piece? There is much in it about poor me. Mifs, I hear, mentions me fometimes in her memoirs.

I fhall try at Oxford what can be done for ***** What can be done for his daughter it is not eafy to tell. Does her mother know her own distress, or is the out of her wits with pride, or does * * * a little exaggerate? It is ftrange behaviour.

The mourning it feems is general. I must defire that you will let fomebody take my best black cloaths out of the cheft, and fend them. There is nothing in the cheft but what may be tumbled. The key is the newest of thofe two that have the wards channelled. When they are at the Borough, my man can fetch them.

But all this while, dear and dear lady, take great care of yourself.

Do

Do not buy C―'s travels, they are duller is too fond of words,

than T―'s.

W

but you may read him.

I fhall take care that

Adair's account of America

may be sent you,

for I fhall have it of my own.

Beattie has called once to see me. He lives grand at the Archbishop's.

Dear lady, do not be careless, nor heedlefs, nor rafh, nor giddy; but take care of your health. I am, dearest Madam,

Your, &c.

Dr. Talbot, which I think I never told you, has given five hundred pounds to the future infirmary.

LETTER CIII.

To Mrs. THRA L E.

DEAREST LADY,

TH

May 25, 1775.

HE fit was a fudden faintness, such as I have had I know not how often; no harm came of it, and all is well. I cannot go till Saturday; and then go I will, if I can. My cloaths, Mr. Thrale fays, must be made like other people's, and they are gone to the taylor. If I do not go, you know how fhall I come back again?

I told you, I fancy, yesterday, that I was well, but I thought fo little of the diforder, that I know not whether I faid any thing about it.

I am, &c.

LETTER CIV.

To Mrs. THRA L E.

DEAR MADAM,

June 1, 1775.

I

KNOW well enough what you think, but I am out of your reach. I did not make the epitaph before last night and this morning; I have found it too long. I fend you it as it is to pacify you, and will make it shorter. It is too long by near half. Tell me what you would be most willing to fpare.

Dr. Wetherell went with me to the Vice Chancellor, to whom we told the tranfaction with my Lord of Chester, and the Vice Chancellor promised to write to the Archbishop. I told him that he needed have no fcruples; he was asking nothing for himself; nothing that would make him richer, or them poorer; and that he acted only as a magiftrate, and one concerned for the intereft of the Univerfity. Dr. Wetherell promises to ftimulate him.

Don't fuppofe that I live here as we live at Streatham. I went this morning to the chapel

at