I think nothing more
likely to make your life pass happily away, than that consciousness of
your own value, which eminence in your profession will certainly confer.
If I can give you any collateral help, I hope you do not suspect that it
will be wanting. My kindness for you has neither the merit of singular
virtue, nor the reproach of singular prejudice. Whether to love you be
right or wrong, I have many on my side: Mrs. Thrale loves you, and Mrs.
Williams loves you, and what would have inclined me to love you, if I
had been neutral before, you are a great favourite of Dr. Beattie.*
'Of Dr. Beattie I should have thought much, but that his lady puts him
out of my head; she is a very lovely woman.
'The ejection which you come hither to oppose, appears very cruel,
unreasonable, and oppressive. I should think there could not be much
doubt of your success.
'My health grows better, yet I am not fully recovered. I believe it is
held, that men do not recover very fast after threescore.
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