TO THE REV. MR. JOHN KENDALL[1],
AT MR. BIRKHEAD'S, OVER AGAINST THE FREE-SCHOOL, IN LEICESTER.
If any thing made me wonder at your letter, it was your almost inviting me to do so in the beginning, which indeed grew less upon knowing the occasion; since it is what I have heard from more than one in and about Leicester. And for the friendship between us, as I suppose yours to be real; so I think it would be proper to imagine mine, until you find any cause to believe it pretended; though I might have some quarrel at you in three or four lines, which are very ill bestowed in complimenting me. And as to that of my great prospects of making my fortune, on which as your kindness only looks on the best side, so my own cold temper, and uncon-
- ↑ Vicar of Thornton, in Leicestershire.
