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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 June 2022
My good Lady,
I am honoured with your Ladyship's Three Letters, the Contents of which are highly obliging to me: And I should be inexcusable, if I did not comply with your Injunctions, and be very proud and thankful for your Ladyship's Condescension in accepting of my poor Scribble, and promising me such a rich and invaluable Return; of which you have given me already such ample and such delightful Instances. I will not plead my Defects, to excuse my Obedience. I only fear, that the Awe which will be always upon me, when I write to your Ladyship, will lay me under so great a Restraint, that I shall fall short even of the Merit my Papers have already made for me, thro’ your kind Indulgence. But nevertheless, sheltering myself under your Goodness, I will chearfully comply with every thing your Ladyship expects from me, that is in my Power to do.
You will give me Leave, Madam, to put into some little Method, the Particulars of what you desire of me; that I may speak to them all: For since you are so good as to excuse me from sending the rest of my Papers, (which indeed would not bear in many Places) I will omit nothing that shall tend to convince you of my Readiness to obey you in every thing else.
First, then, your Ladyship would have the Particulars of the happy Fortnight we passed in Kent, on one of the most agreeable Occasions that could befal me.
Secondly, An Account of the Manner in which your dear Brother acquainted me with the affecting Story of Miss Godfrey, and my Behaviour upon it.
And, thirdly, I presume your Ladyship, and Lady Betty, expect that I should say something upon your welcome Remarks on my Conduct towards Mrs. Jewkes.
The other Particulars contained in your Ladyship's kind Letters will naturally fall under one or other of these three Heads.—But expect not, my Lady, tho’ I begin in Method thus, that I shall keep up to it; If your Ladyship will not allow for me, and keep in View the poor Pamela Andrews in all I write, but will have Mrs. B. in your Eye, what will become of me?
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