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 Rh two angels who stand at heaven's gate, ever open, ever inviting guests to the marriage. O foolish philosophy! Gratitude is heaven itself. There could be no heaven without gratitude; I feel it and I know it I thank God and man for it, and above all, you, my dear friend and benefactor, in the Lord. Pray give my and my wife's duties to Miss Pogle; accept them yourself. — Yours in sincerity,

31.

To

27th January 1804.

,—Your eager expectation of hearing from me compels me to write immediately, though I have not done half the business I wished, owing to a violent cold which confined me to my bed three days and to my chamber a week. I am now so well, thank God, as to get out, and have accordingly been to Mr. Walker, who is not in town, being at Birmingham, where he will remain six weeks or two months. I took my portrait of Romney as you desired, to show him. His son