The pelisse fits as if it had been made for me, excepting that it is a little too short in the sleeves, which is not of any consequence.
I shall therefore, with many acknowledgments, accept and wear it,—somewhat, I fear, in the mode of the ass in the lion’s skin in the fable; or, rather in the hope which the Indians entertain when they wear the spoils of a redoubted enemy, viz. that his good qualities may be transferred to the new possessor with his habiliments. But these being the garments of a friend, may, I trust, be still more propitious.
I send you some papers, but I doubt that you have later ones; however, they can serve the mess as duplicates: the 29th and 30th are among them; but the 26th and 27th (28th being Sunday) are not yet arrived.
