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Linc. Inn

Tuesday 27 Oct. 1778

247

I am almost blind with bad eyes & beside that I am
more than half asleep— Quere whether I shall be able to
make out a scrap of a letter to go tonight.

Have you seen Horne's letter to Dunning? an 18d pamphlet? it contains an
important discovery in universal grammar. It gives you the Natural History and
Chemical Analysis of conjunctions: it shows that they are most of them the imperatives
of verbs. It tears Harris's Hermes all to rags.

You will know by the Newspapers and from a thousand
other quarters of Ld Howe's being come to Portsmouth. I heard
of it last night only as a report. To day about 3 o'clock I heard of it from
Lind as a certainty. I posted to J. Street (where by the bye
Lafalle is along with the Lagresserne) with the intelligence. Lasalle
came to town on Monday yesterday with her sister on pretence that
verte would not be able to take care of the three children. I had
not been there a minute when in came a man sent by
the to give advice of his having received a letter from
Davies remember it as D's at Portsmouth. They said that part of the message was to
desire that she should not leave town till she had seen or heard
from him: this however must have been a mistake as he could
not possibly have known of her being in town; nor did that I
know of. I suppose the message was to desire Mrs. W. to write
to Mrs. D. to come to town.

I took that opportunity to give Verte a letter which I
had just received for her from L'ecossois. He will be in town
the 4th or 5th: and from what he heard about you last, he more
than half expects to find you here then.

Schwediauer drank Tea with me last night—he and
I are as great as -weavers. He adores Helvetius—
He has translated (with large additions and explanations) Fordyear's
Elements of Agriculture. He tells me of a new edition of Dicty
that is coming out in 6 vols 8vo: and Elmsley(as he told him)
is getting it translated into English as it comes out. Have not
you got the 2d edition of the English in 3 vols 8vo If you have
quere will you give it to Young and wait yourself for the new
new one, or will you wait for the new one to give him. He
I dare say, knows nothing about the new one.

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