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Happy should we be, if it should prove consistent
with your Enjoyment, to prevent this, by giving
us the pleasure of your Company; but if you can't
be present at both this Meeting & that of the opening
(perhaps a fortnight afterwards) I must needs
say I should much prefer the latter:- it would
be extremely desirable that your own Eyes should
behold the Commencement of an Institution
that your hands have founded, which I trust
will be powerful Means of bringing happiness
to mankind & Glory to the great Redeemer till the
foundations of the Earth shall be removed.
I must close, with my usual reluctance
after adding Mrs. Phillips's Wishes to be very dutifully
remembered to my Aunt as well as yourself
with your
much obliged
and very dutiful Nephew
S. Phillips Jun'r