Correspondence and Diary
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ISBN13: 9780217700658
Paperback|9780217700658
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TO MR. MASSEY. DEAR SIR, Burton, March 25, 1725. I Have now an opportunity of writing to you by Mr. King, and shall not fail to embrace it, though I had no particular business with you. The many favours I have received from you at London and in Leicestershire would at least call for a letter every two or three months; and you have found out such a substantial method of convincing me of your friendship, that I believe you would forgive the trouble that I gave you, if it were only for the satisfaction of hearing that I am well, as I bless God I have continued ever since I had the pleasure of seeing you at Harborough. But I have now a subject to write upon which, though to some it would seem rude and troublesome, to a gentleman of your temper and character will no doubt be very agreeable. In one word, sir, I am going to propose an object of charity to your consideration and relief. I will wave all argument upon that head, which indeed my time will not allow me, and your generosity renders entirely needless, and only plainly tell you the case to the best of my remembrance. If the circumstances of it will plead for it, it is enough; if they will not, I am contented it should be neglected, and your liberality otherwise employed. Mrs. Wright is a clergyman's daughter, a younggentlewoman of genteel education and a very honourable character, both for good sense and piety. Her father was a man of moderate principles; and, I am very sorry to say, lost eight hundred pounds, which was his whole substance, by lodging it in knavish hands. The family being thus reduced, the eldest daughter went to wait on the lady Wingate. The second, who is the subject of this letter, as a decent means of support bound herself apprentice to a mantua-maker, and continued in her service eight years, b...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217700658 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217700659 |
| Weight | 1.04 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.71 In |
| List Price | $21.05 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 318 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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