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LETTER XXXI.

My dear Theodore will excuse the shortness of this hurried
letter, in consideration of the fatigue which has almost
entirely exhausted me. I thank you, my son, for your intelligence
respecting your mother and her family. Do not
forget to remember me to her, and all of them, when you
write. You have spelled the present participle of this verb
with a g and an h, thus, "wrighting"—both supernumerary
letters;—the last of which you have cut off from the poor
preposition through—often written thro', but never but
once, "throug:" "which evil fell to," instead of upon, &c.

I have sent you and Tudor four fish-hooks, worth four
thousand of the common sort. Adieu.