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Knowing you so well Dear Mrs Clayton, I think I can adress my selfe no where so well as to you, to doe people service, your inclination agreeing so well with it, I think I am obliged to doe my best, to Justify Doctor Duglas, who I shou'd be mighty sorry to have less well thought on, for what has laitly hapen'd to me, I must say, yt he allways doubted - about ye condition I was supposed to be in, since I came to Callais, which is very probable, since he never gave me the least incouragement to beleive it, I shoud be very glad when occation serves, you woud be so good, as to

answer this to persons who will may be, be ill natured enough, to lay hold of any thing, that may be hurtfull to another, I hope by this time, you will have been so good, as to have forgot whatever you may have dislik'd in dives's conduct, & that you will in time join with me, to doe her service, when she will want it, I certainly have all reasons imaginable, to be satisfyd with her service, and shou'd be very sorry to part with her, if it was not her own choice, so shall doe whatver ly's in my power, to Chenevix able to keep her, so as yt she may think