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The following note from him will be found of a delightful old-time flavor:-- Mr.Macaulay presents his compliments to Mr.Morse and begs to express his regret at not having yet been so fortunate as to meet with him.
Mr. Macaulay will be particularly happy if it should suit Mr.Morse to dine with him at his house at Clapham on Saturday next at five o'clock.
Mr. M.'s house is five doors beyond the Plough at the entrance of Clapham Common.
A coach goes daily to Clapham from the Ship at Charing Cross at a quarter past three, and several leave Grace Church Street in the City every day at four.
The distance from London Bridge to Mr.Macaulay's house is about four miles. 23d June, 1812. In a letter from his mother of June 28, 1812, the anxious parent says:-- "Although we long to see you, yet we rejoice that you are so happily situated at so great a distance from our, at present, wretched, miserably distracted country, whose mad rulers are plunging us into an unnecessary war with a country that I shall always revere as doing more to spread the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ to the benighted heathen, and those that are famishing from lack of knowledge, than any other nation on the globe. Our hearts bleed at every pore to think of again being at war.
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