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Linc. Inn. July 6. 1778.

Your letter, my dear Sam, which I receiv'd this afternoon deliver'd
me as you may imagine from a good deal of anxiety.
It is to no purpose to tell you all the theories and conjectures I had
formed to account for your silence. You have seen I suppose before
now a letter I wrote about you to Mr Witchell. As the Devil
would have it he was in town at the time (so I learnt to day from
Nairne through Mrs D.) by which means I was doubly distressed
and disappointed. The first that I heard of you was from Q.S.
P. with whom I dined on Thursday andFriday.

Friday's post brought me a letter form D'Alembert,
which put me in bad spirits. I have transcribed it for your edification
on the other leaf. I wasis civil indeed, but rather cold and
dry, and very short. N'importe— I am by this time very
well reconciled to it. We shall soon see, I hope what the other men have
to say to us.

After I had read your letter to me I posted to Lind
to see that which you had written to him — Why could not you
as well have sent it under my cover? You were afraid I
suppose of my being out of the way. He seemed mightily
pleased with it I can assure you and told me he intended
to answer it — I told that as time was precious to him,
I would save him that trouble. All he had to say was to thank
you for what you have done, and to exhort you to lose no opportunity
of doing the like in future. I do exhort you in his
name and my own. I can assure you it has answer'd very
well; therefore grudge neither time nor trouble in scraping up
whatever intelligence you can. He says it is inconceivable the
anxiety they are in in Poland to know how every thing that happens
between us and France, thinking that if we were disengaged
we might take some part or other in the disputes in
Germany. The best days for your letters of news to Lind to arrive
are

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Date_1	1778-07-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	207	Info in main headings field
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