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that my dear papa and mamma will excuse the badness of the writing of this letter, when they shall be pleased to recollect, that this is my first attempt since I have learnt to join my letters together. I have long been anxious to have the pleasure of being able to write to you, and beg you will be pleased to accept this my first humble offering. As my constant study ever has been, so shall it continue to be, to convince you how much I am my dearest parents,—Your affectionate and dutiful daughter.

I cannot fail, my dear Harry, most sensibly to feel the loss you have sustained in the death of a good and indulgent father. It pierces me to the heart, for I know how great was your affection for him, and how feelingly you must bemoan his loss. I will call upon you to-morrow, and we will cry together; for as we always mutually enjoyed our sports, why should we be seperate in our griefs? They tell me you do not cry but sit in gloomy silence. I do not like that, for I have somewhere read that tears ease the heart, and open a passage