Essays on Life 



"DEAR Miss , I Receve your Letter 



on Thursday i Whent to your Aunt and i 

 see her and She is a Greable to everry thing 

 i asked her and seme so vary Much Please 

 to see you Both Next Tuseday and she has 

 sent for the Faggots to Day and she Will 

 Send for the Coles to Morrow and i will Go 

 up there to Morrow Morning and Make the 

 Fiers and Tend to the Beds and sleep in it 

 Till you Come Down your Aunt sends her 

 Love to you Both and she is Quite well your 

 Aunt Wishes you wold Write againe Before 

 you Come as she ma Expeckye and the Dog 

 is not to Gointo the Parlor a Tall 



"your Aunt kind Love to you Both & 

 hopes you Wonte Fail in Coming according 

 to Prommis MRS NEWTON." 



From a later letter it appears that the 

 nieces did not pay their visit after all, and what 

 is worse a letter had miscarried, and the aunt 

 sat up expecting them from seven till twelve 

 at night, and Harry had paid for "Faggots 

 and Coles quarter of Hund. Faggots Half 



tun of Coles il is. 3^." Shortly afterwards, 



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