(seq. 1)

Pall Mall, {october} 1, 1766.

Sir,

I beg you to accept my[best?] acknowledgments for along, [?],
[interesting?] Letter, dated july 25, though written on a melancholy
occasion; & for other matters which accompanied that Letter.
The Death of that able, good, public Man, {Doctor} Mayhew, my
old & much esteemed Friend, hath grieved me exceedingly.
He seems to have died through over-strain of application and
Philanthropy.

I pray God to soften the afflictions of his Widow, that accom-
plished, excellent Lady, and to endue her with fortitude equal
to her Loss.

The Resolution taken by her, not to publish any posthumous
work of his, appears to me to be judicious.
I guess not diskindly, at what the hint thrown out to you