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 It happens that I have some of this young Lady's letters in my possession—I shall present my reader with one of them—it was written a short time after the death of her mother, and addressed to a cousin, a dear friend of Elinor's, who was then on the point of being married to Mr. Beaumont, of Staffordshire, and had invited Elinor to assist at her nuptials. I will transcribe it with minute fidelity.

HEALTH, Innocence, and Beauty, shall be thy Bridesmaids, my sweet Cousin. I have no heart to