I am obliged to you for your long Letter, which did not seem so, and for your short one, which was more than I had any Reason to Expect. Short as it was it conveyed to me two interesting articles of intelligence, an account of your recovery from a fever, and of Lady Cowper's death. The latter was, I suppose, to be expected, for by what remembrance I have of her ladyship, who was never much acquainted with her, she had reached those years that are always found upon the borders of another world. As for you, your time of life is comparatively of a youthful date. You may think of death as much as you please,(you cannot think of it too much) but I hope you will live to think of it many years. It costs me not much difficulty to suppose that my Friends who were already grown old, when I