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 THE LETTER-WRITER, PART I. ON DUTY AND FRIENDSHIP. A Son's Letter at School to his Father. Honoured Sir, I AM greatly obliged to you for all your favours ali I have to hope is, that the progreſs I make in my learning will be no diſagreeable return for the ſame. Gratitude, duty, and a view of future advantages, all conſpire to make me thoroughly ſenſible how much I ought to labour for my own improvement, and your ſatisfaction, and to ſhew myſelf, upon all occaſions, Your moſt obedient, and ever dutiful Son, ROBERT REID. Letter from a Youth at School to his parents. Honoured Father and Mother, YOUR kind letter of the 24th infiant, I receiv- ed in due time, and, ſoon after, the things you therein mentioned, by the carrier, for which I return you my ſincere thanks. They came very opportunely for my occaſions I hope ſoon to im- prove myſelf at ſchool, though I own it ſeems a little hard and irkſome to me as yet; but my maſ- ter gives me great encouragement, and aſſures me, I will ſoon get the better of the little difficulties that almoſt every boy meets with at firſt, and then it will be a perfect pleaſure inſtead of a taſk, and al- together