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I will try do well and merit your esteem and praise for
nothing encourges [encourages] me more than your praise I have
clear'd [cleared] my character of the crime of taking that letter.
Mr Adams says he (on account of the evidences he has
recieved [received]) has cleared the scholars of Phillips academy
of all suspicion. I will tell you how I disposed of my
money Besides the bills I enclose I paid Mr Lock 68
and [Mr?] Blunt 3 for my hat I [believe?] that is the [?]
Mr Adams has just told me to write to you and let
you that I sustain a fair character and that I am
Inocent [innocent]. I hope you will recover soon from your
illness. So that when you return you will find
your dutiful son and apt scholar and a good boy.

Your

Affectionate

&

Dutiful son

James [underlined]