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Sept. 27th.

Dear underline Madam /underline

I am afraid your will think me a very slow Correspondent; and, to confess the truth, I think my self so. However, I beg you will not imagine my Silence proceeds either from want of Respect or Affection. But if you should ask me from what it proceeds, I must own I should be at a loss what to say, unless you will admit of the honest but unpolite excuse of Laziness. I have put into a neat gilt Frame your very excellent Favour; I look upon it as one of the chief Ornaments of my Room. & I assure you it is highly admired by the best Judges, even by some Ladies who have seen extream fine things of that kind in the Nunneries abroad.

Our glorious Coronation is now over; I wish you had been here to have seen it: as to my self, I durst not venture: but by all accounts it was the most superb and magnificent Sight that ever was exhibited in Europe. The amazing number of Spectators, and the Joy