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1781-10-12 Oct. 12. 1781 10 o'clock

Here am I at a place called Beckington in the road from
Bath to London, as also in the road from Bath to Oxford,
and having nothing else to do, it came into my head that
I may as well write to you. This morning I left Bowood
to seek my fortune: found the Bath coaches full (I mean
Coaches from Bath to London ) took a Post chaise at Calne
and came to this place which is 6 or 7 miles from it.
I am bound for Thorpe — All the Coaches that get to London
before night being full, I am just stepping into a Coach
that goes from Bath to Oxford, which latter place it
reaches by 7 in the evening. Providence has therefore order'd
it that I shall spend this evening with my friend Abbot
of Christ church college, who little expects me. I have parted
very good friends with the people at Bowood, a thing which I
cannot but wonder at, considering that it was politics that first
brought us acquaintanced, at the same time that according to the
discoveries we have reciprocally made nothing can be more
opposite than our views on 'that attack' as to every thing that concerns
present measures — This is incorrect, and will not convey the
meaning I wish it should, but I have not time to set it right.
But as a proof that we are well together, one of the last things
my Lord said to me was "you will leave nobody here who does not
"love and admire you." He has given me a letter to Ld Fitzmaurice
at London that I may be acquainted with him before the family
come from Bowood, and charged me to come & dine with them as
soon as ever they came to town. I have hurt my finger: therefore don't
be surprized if my writing is not quite so elegant as usual.

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