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Corke December 17 yr 1770

Dear Miss

its not to be express all the anxiety
of mind I have gone thru, by your and our worthy friends
silence, as I did not get the letter you mention to have
sent by hand, nor did not know what to thing, tell I
had the pleasure of receiving yours, of the 27 of last month,
which did not surprize me, to find by it that nothing was
as yet fix’d, as I was sure I shou’d soon being mead acquaint’d
with how matters went, if there was any good news, and
on the receipt of your letter I spoak to Mr Doran, who is so
good as to write in my name, to the superiour begging her
interest, and that she wou’d be so charitable as not to defer,
making her community give a categorical answer, as to that point
I think she cant well refuse, the last request in conscience,
as to the other she may not have any scruple about it; had I
wrote my self she might say I cou’d doe it as well before as on
this occasion, and others may take it ill, that I did not pay them
this compliment, only Mr Moylan, has such patience and
zeal, he wou’d sertenly long a go given up the affair, as he
is resolv’d to leave now stone onturn’d to bring about this
foundation he says: you and he will consider what is best
to be done, for I dread they never will consent to lose so usefull