REV. HENRY MARTYN, B.D. 59 



I congratulate you on your large receipt of European letters, 

 and wish you the continuance of such gratification ; but see if your 

 future receipts are not successively smaller, in decreasing pro- 

 gression. Probably your desire of hearing from them will also 

 decrease, and so the loss will be felt less severely. 



I go on much as usual, occupied all day, and laying a weary 

 head on the pillow at night. My health, which you enquire after 

 so kindly, is on the whole good ; but I am daily reminded that it 

 is a fragile frame 1 carry about. Sabat is well, and desires to be 

 remembered to you both. His Arab ferocity is softening fast, I 

 think, into christian meekness and love. His Mary, if you believe 

 him, bids fair to be a giantess. 



Your music book I return with thanks, and send you the two 

 Hindostanee books, not to be put upon the shelf, but to be read. 



Miss Friend will also favour me with delivering 27 rupees, my 

 debt for the teapot. I hope the gaudy superficial teapot does not 

 remind you of me — though mine reminds me of you, because it is 

 solid. May the event prove that this is more than a mere compli- 

 ment ! may your days be spent in the acquisition of solid wisdom, 

 and the exercise of solid piety. With the kindest remembrances 

 to Captain Dare, 



I remain, yours with sincere regard, 



H. MAETYJSr. 

 Mrs. Dare, Gya. 



[Letter 2.] 



Danapore, August 23rd, 1808. 

 My dear Mrs. Dare, 



I had long since given up all expectation of hearing from you, 

 because, after waiting some time in vain, I perceived that indolence 

 had relaxed your arm, and at such times an ingenuous shame 

 generally comes in to make a bad matter worse ; you have, however 

 wisely followed a maxim that has saved many, that it is never too 

 late to amend. 



I rejoice to find by your letter that you are contented with your 

 lot. Before the time of Horace, and since too, contentment has 

 been observed to be a very rare thing on earth, and I know not 



