Is it convenient for you now to pay your debts? I mean, to fulfill the promise you made of giving me the pleasure of your company for a week at Newington? Any day this week, or, if this week does not suit you, of the next, we shall be happy to receive you, if you can take up with half a bed, which you will share with a very good girl &, as her mother affirms, a very quiet bed fellow, Miss Estlin

—Now is this to be a note or a letter for having really said all I wanted to say it would be much more convenient to me to make it a note & if I had begun note stile M^rs Barbauld’s Compts begs the favour &c the business
Would

[fol 1^v] would have been done, but unluckily I have begun a letter, & have nothing more to tell you. What shall I say? you are not much of a politician & do not expect a place otherwise I would give you joy of the new ministry

—I could tell you of Valentines & verses flying about our house, but as you are not in love to my knowledge, you would not care for them—I could tell you of the lamentable situation of poor Charles,

bereft of his love who is flown away to Yorkshire, (he does not eat I believe above two or three times a day) but then I know you consider him as an old batchelor, & have no sympathy for him—I will therefore content myself with telling you an old truth, that I am aff^y