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June 20 1792

My dear H

There are so few things that answer expectation that I have even most cordially subscribed to the favorite Maxim of yours that “to give quickly is to give twice” I therefore lose no time in satisfying your poetical feelings by the soothing reflexion of having driven me from my old friends & the southern coast this summer –

Indeed I delayed my reply two posts in the hope of telling you I could fix on a northern bathing place - but after a fatiguing night with the idea of Scarborrow [sic] (which I knew to be more than Brighthelmstone beyond my reach) I have for three days been engaged in a fruitless search after an obscure \sea/ bathing place upon the Lincolnshire coast. I

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I therefore for the present decline making any farther reply to your letter as my spirits require repose I am

Y^rs sincerely
Eliza Hayley

I shewed your letter to M.^rs Twigge.
I suppose you have seen M.^rs Beridges [sic] death in the papers - a cruel loss to M.^rs Gladwin

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W^m Hayley Esq^re Eartham
^near Chichester