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UCB/04282
Corke may 13 yr 1770

Dear Miss

I am glad to profit of any
oppertunity to assure you, how pleasing its to me, to
acquaint you with any thing I thought wou’d be agreeable
to you, and as I am serten will be to hear that I hope
we have got a very desirable subject in the young lady
I mention’d to you some time agoe, recommend’d by Mr
Austen, I wish I cou’d transmit to you that part of
his letter in respect of her, that he wrote to Mr doran
as it was not convenient to give it me, I shall give you
a full account of her, and some conjectures of my owne
in her regard, as you may be surpriz’d I shou’d not
have insist’d, on a better fortune, if you did not now
how matters stand, I have done nothing in it only
with the approbation of our worthy friend, and his
uncle, her father will give only two hundred pd
to the house, he is to pay fifteen pd a year in-
terest on it, while she lives, he is to give her a pen-
sion for herself, that he does not choose to name