MR. ADDISON TO DR. SWIFT.
I AM in a very great hurry of business, but cannot forbear thanking you for your letter at Chester, which was the only entertainment I met with in that place. I hope to see you very suddenly, and will wait on our friend the bishop of Clogher[1] as soon as I can possibly. I have had just time to tell him, en passant, that you were well. I long to see you, and am, dear Sir, your most faithful, and most obedient servant,
We arrived yesterday at Dublin.
MR. ADDISON TO THE SAME.
I AM heartily glad to hear you are so near us. If you will deliver the enclosed to the captain of the Wolf, I dare say he will accommodate you with all in his power. If he has left Chester, I have sent you a bill according to the bishop of Clogher's desire, of whom I have a thousand good things to say. I do not ask your excuse about the yacht, because I don't want it, as you shall hear at Dublin: if I did, I should think myself inex-