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1. Letter of Rev. H. Martyn to Mrs. Dare,* 19tli May, 1808. 



2. Ditto, Ditto, 23rd August, 1808. 



3. Ditto, Ditto, 23rd September, 1808. 



[Letter 1.] 



Danapore, May 19th, 1808. 



Dear Mrs. Dare, 



Your letter arrived just in time to save you from some severe 

 animadversions that were preparing for you. I intended to have 

 sent by your young friend, some remarks direct and oblique, on 

 the variableness of the sex, the facility with which promises are 

 made and broken, the pleasures of indolence, and other topics of 

 the like nature, — but your kind epistle disarms me. Soon after you 

 left us, the heat increased to a degree I had never before felt, and 

 made me often think of you with concern. I used to say to 

 Col. Bradshaw, " I wonder how Mrs. Dare likes Gya, and its 

 burning hills — I dare say she would be glad to be back again." 

 "Well, I should be glad if we had you here again. I want female 

 society, and among the ladies of Danapore there is none with whom 

 1 have a chance of obtaining a patient hearing, when speaking to 

 them on the subject of their most important interest. This, you 

 know, is the state of all but Mrs. Stuart, and it is a state of danger 

 and death. Follow them no more, my dear friend ; but now, in 

 the solitude of G-ya, learn those lessons of heavenly wisdom, that 

 when you are brought again into a larger society, you may not 

 yield to the impulse of doing as others do, but, by a life of true 

 seriousness put them to shame. 



I expected from you some account of your new situation, and 

 augur rather unfavourably from your silence ; perhaps you had 

 rather write nothing, than write against it. The most unpleasant 

 part of the weather I hope is over, and besides, your stay at Grya 

 will not be very long. 



* The names of Capt. D. and Mrs. D. occur in ' Journal and Letters' between 

 February 17 and March 24, 1808, wherein Martyn's relations with them are 

 described just as in this set of letters. 



