Volume the Second: Diplomatic DisplayLondonBritish Library, Add. MS. 59874
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A Collection of Letters –––
Letter the first
From a Mother to her freind.
My Children begin now to
claim all my at::tention in a different Mannerfromto that in which they have been used to receive it,
as they are now arrived at that age when it isneceſsary for them in some measure to be--come conversant with the World. My
Augustais 17 & her Sister scarcely a
twelvemonth younger. I flatter myself that their education
has been such as will not disgrace theirappearance in the World, & that they willnot disgrace their Education I have every rea::son to
beleive. Indeed they are
sweet Girls –.