February 09, 1771
glad to hear from you every stage, and
would take great pleasure in writing al-
-ternately with you as often as you may
write. -- My dear friend your
advancement is so nearly connected with
my happiness that one is absolutely con-
-sequent to the other; every step you
take towards the Ne plus ultra of
literature, animates me to think that my
friend is capable of making progress in
the path which has immortalis’d so many
of the British genius.
I have been at school since I saw
you, but can’t indulge myself any more
in that pleasing amusement, being in-
-volved in the cares of domestic life;
I begun the greek grammer, but
I must quit it, and bequeth the tupso,
tupse, tupseirs to somebody that has no
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