Chapter XXXI: Letter XXX: To Miss L

Thursday Morning, Oct. 16, 1775.

MY worthy and respected friend, I hear, has protracted her stay.--I am greatly obliged to Miss L----’s goodness, who has given me this opportuity of addressing my good friend.--I am very low in heart--poor Mrs. Sancho is so indifferent--and Lydia, though upon the whole better, yet weak and poorly.--I am sufficiently acquainted with care--and I think fatten upon calamity.--Philosophy is best practised, I believe, by the easy and affluent.--One ounce of practical religion is worth all that ever the Stoics wrote.--Mrs. Sancho smiles in the pains which it has pleased Providence to try her with--and her belief in a better existence is her cordial drop,--Adieu; bring health with you, and the sight of you will glad us all.

Yours,

I. SANCHO.