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To J. B. Holroyd, Esq.
Saturday, ten o'clock in the Evening, Spinham lands, 1775.
MRS. GIBBON CATCHES SMALL-POX.
I arrived in town about one, and calling on the Eliots found they received yesterday a letter from their sister at Bath, that Mrs. G.'s small-pox is of a very bad confluent sort. I got out of town about half an hour after three (too much hurried to write), have travelled till the Moon failed me, propose being at Bath about noon to-morrow. Shall write to-morrow evening.