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UCB/04281 V 2 Cork April 29 yr 1770

Dear Miss

I had the pleasure of receiving
y’ kind favor, and hope my last letter, has convinc’d
you that it was now neglect on my part, not answer
ing you soon’r, as nothing can give me more real plea
sure than hearing often, from you [?] till I have that
of seeing you, and that long’d for sight, I hope is not at
such a distance as I some time a goe imagin’d it to be; I can’t
to much admire your zeal, and great trust in the divine
providence, wh: I always look’d on as the most sollid
beginning any foundation, of this kind could have, &
I build more on the success of it from the poor way
it first took its rise than any means, it has plais’d
god to give me at present to carry it on: I cant
express how much I suffer to think of all the severe
trials you have gone true, and am sensiable its
more painfull to meet them when shou’d expect