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Letter the fifth

From a Young Lady very much in love to her Freind.


My Uncle gets more stingy, my Aunt more particular, & I more in love every day. What shall we all be at this rate by the end of the year! I had this morningthe happineſs of receiving the following Let::ter from my dear Musgrove.

Sackville St:Street Jan:ryJanuary 7th -

It is a month to day since I first beheld my lovely Henrietta, & the sacred anniver::sary must & shall be kept in a man::ner becoming the day — by writing to her. Never shall I forget the moment whenher Beauties first broke on my sight – No time as you well know can erase itfrom my Memory. It was at Lady Scuda:

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