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Queen's Wednesday 21st April 1762.
Dear Papa
I am glad to find you have fixed upon a
lodging to your liking; a business which I apprehended wou'd
have been attended with a great deal of difficulty, from what
I haved heard from you of the scarcity of lodgings in town.
I am pleased to find my Verses are acceptable; which indeed
I was not without hopes of, from the kind partiality
with which you are want to judge of my little performances.
I can also acquaint you now with a great event in
my turn; I have changed my rooms for some time; and should
have acquainted you with it before, but Mr Jefferson
told me I had better stay and see how liked the rooms
I am now in; which accordingly I have done, and being perfectly
satisfied with them, which by the by I was not wth
the others, I now apply to you for your consent; which I
have not much doubt of, as I like these so much better,
and the rent is 1 £ a year cheaper than that of the others.
the considerations which induced me to change were these;
first that the my former rooms smoked very much; 2ly that
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