William Warburton to Philip Doddridge, Northampton, 28 May 1741.

May 28 1741

Dear Sir,

         This day sennight Mr Gyles gave to Mr Fowler himself the remaining sheets which I suppose you may have recd by this time

         After an extreme fatiguing journey on ye stage Coach with very indifferent company increased by worse taken upon ye road I reach’d the Gyles’ between 8 and 9 last night.

         I have abundance of thanks to return for the very friendly entertainment I met with at Northampton from you & your excellent spouse. I must tell you frankly you have more happiness than comes to ye share of one man, & to make it the more exquisite of several various kinds. Providence has treated you with a feast of many courses: which none but a good Levite under ye old Law when the Dispensation was exact could fairly pretend to. That you may long enjoy every part of it especially that last & best which shares & doubles all the rest is the earnest prayer of Dear Sir your most affectionate Brother & Friend  W. Warburton

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Text: Aberystwyth University Library, Special Collections, GB 0982 ML/ My thanks to William Hines, formerly Information Services Departmental Fellow, Abersytwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales, for sharing images of these letters with me as well as backgrounds on correspondents and named individuals. The MS of this letter was not known to Nuttall; he cites the printed version that appeared in J. D. Humphreys, ed., Correspondence and Diary of Philip Doddridge (1829-31), vol. 4, p. 18, as well as two other printed sources.