together; and that you with the bookseller had that letter among the rest:
but don't say anything of it as from me. I forget whether it was good or no;
but only having heard it much commended, perhaps it may deserve it. Well, I
have to-morrow to finish this letter in, and then I will send it next day. I
am so vexed that you should write your third to me, when you had but my
second, and I had written five, which now I hope you have all: and so I tell
you, you are saucy, little, pretty, dear rogues, etc.

18. To-day I dined, by invitation, with Stratford and others, at a young
merchant's in the City, with Hermitage and Tokay, and stayed till nine, and am
now come home. And that dog Patrick is abroad, and drinking, and I cannot I
get my night-gown. I have a mind to turn that puppy away: he has been drunk
ten times in three weeks. But I han't time to say more; so good-night, etc.

19. I am come home from dining in the city with Mr. Addison, at a merchant's;
and just now, at the Coffee-house, we have notice that the Duke of Ormond was
this day declared Lord Lieutenant at Hampton Court, in Council. I have not
seen Mr. Harley since; but hope the affair is done about First-Fruits. I will
see him, if possible, to-morrow morning; but this goes to-night. I have sent
a box to Mr. Sterne, to send to you by some friend: I have directed it for
Mr. Curry, at his house; so you have warning when it comes, as I hope it will
soon. The handkerchiefs will be put in some friend's pocket, not to pay
custom. And so here ends my sixth, sent when I had but three of MD's: now I
am beforehand, and will keep so; and God Almighty bless dearest MD, etc.



LETTER 7.

LONDON, Oct. 19, 1710.