I could have wished in my daughter, or had Ieven known her to poſseſes so much as she does,I should not have been anxious for the match."

"It is odd that you alone should be ignorantof your Daughter's sense."

"Frederica never does justice to herself; — hermanners are shy & childish. – She is besides afraidof me; she scarcely loves me. — During her poor Father's life she was a spoilt child; the severitywhich it has since been neceſsary for me to shew, has entirely alienated her affection; – neitherhas she any of that Brilliancy of Intellect, that Genius, or vigour of Mind which will force it::self forward."

"Say rather that she has been unfortunate inher Education."

"Heaven knows my dearest M^rs . Vernon, howfully I am aware of that; but I would wish to