Essays on Life 



let hir know sun : wish She is to do, 

 as She says She dos not care anny thing 

 a bout it. which way tiss she is batter 

 than She was and desirs hir Love to bouth 

 bouth. 



"Your aunt wises to know how the silk 

 Clocks ar madup [how the silk cloaks are 

 made up] with a Cape or a wood as she is a 

 goin to have one madeup to rideout in in hir 

 littel shas [chaise]. 



" Charles is a butty and so good. 



" Mr & Mrs Newton ar quite wall & desires 

 to be remembered to you." 



I can throw no light on the meaning of the 

 verb to " beslive." Each letter in the MS. is 

 so admirably formed that there can be no 

 question about the word being as I have given 

 it. Nor have I been able to discover what is 

 referred to by the words " Charles is a butty 

 and so good." We shall presently meet with 

 a Charles who "flies in the Fier," but that 

 Charles appears to have been in London, 

 whereas this one is evidently in Kent, or 



wherever the aunt lived. 



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