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398 What I blotted out in my last, was something that passed between the captain and Barber, relating to you. After I had writ, they told me all letters would be opened, which made me blot out that passage. Barber says, he gave you some account of it, though not a full one. I really believe lord Bolingbroke was very sincere in the professions he made to you, and he could have done any thing. No minister was ever in that height of favour; and lady Masham was at least in as much credit, as she had been in any time of her life. But these are melancholy reflections. Pray send me your poem, Hoc erat, &c. or bring it up yourself. Barber told me, he had been several hours with the captain, upon a thing that should have come out, but was now at an end. He did not tell what it was; and I would not ask many questions, for fear of giving him suspicion. FROM