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444 Mores egregius mira exprimis arte magister, Et vitam atque homines pagina quæque sapit. Socraticæ minor est vis et sapientia chartæ, Nec tantum potuit grande Platonis opus.

Mrs. Pulteney knowing that I am writing to you, charges me to present her services, when I assure you that I am most faithfully and sincerely,

W. PULTENEY.

TWICKENHAM, JUNE 18, 1740.

AM extremely sensible of the favour of your letter, and very well see the kindness as well as honour which moved you to it. I have no merit for the one, but being (like yourself) a sincere friend to the dean, though much a less useful one; for all my friendship can only operate in wishes, yours in good works. He has had the happiness to meet with such in all the stages of his life; and I hope in God and in you, that he will not want one in the last. Never imagine, madam, that I can do otherwise than esteem that sex, which has furnished him with the best friends.

The favour you offer me I accept with the utmost thankfulness; and I think no person more fit to convey it to my hands than Mr. McAulay, of whom I Rh