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I am afraid something is the matter with you, that I hear nothing from you, since I pass'd two days with you in
your absence.
I am not in Ireland, as you perhaps might imagine by this natural sentence: but shall be as glad to
hear from you, as if I were.
A week ago I saw something in the Newspaper sign'd An Enemy to brick-walls in improper places. while I was
studying how (for brevity's sake) to translate this into Greek, Mr Brown did it in one word, Μασονίδης. I hope,
it is not that complaint, hard (I must own) to digest, that sticks in your stomach, & makes you thus silent.
I am sorry to tell you, that I hear a very bad account of Dr Hurd: he was taken very ill at Thurcaston, & obliged with difficulty to be carried in a chaise to Leicester. he remained there confined some time, before he could be convey'd on to London. as they do not mention, what his malady is, I am much afraid, it is a return of ye same disorder that he had last year in Town.
I am going thither for a few days myself, & shall soon be able to tell you more of him.
Wyatt is return'd hither very calm, but melancholy, & looking dreadfully pale: he thinks of orders, I am told.