esolved, at least, till I am with you.

Mr. Williams said, before Mrs. Jewkes, he would send a messenger with
a letter to my father and mother.--I think the man has no discretion
in the world: but l desire you will send no answer, till I have the
pleasure and happiness which now I hope for soon, of seeing you. He
will, in sending my packet, send a most tedious parcel of stuff, of my
oppressions, my distresses, my fears; and so I will send this with it;
(for Mrs. Jewkes gives me leave to send a letter to my father, which
looks well;) and I am glad I can conclude, after all my sufferings, with
my hopes, to be soon with you, which I know will give you comfort; and
so I rest, begging the continuance of your prayers and blessings,

Your ever dutiful DAUGHTER.

MY DEAR FATHER AND MOTHER,

I have so much time upon my hands that I must write on, to employ
myself. The Sunday evening, where I left off, Mrs. Jewkes asked me, If
I chose to be by myself; I said, Yes, with all my heart, if she pleased.
Well, said she, after to-night you shall. I asked her for more paper;
and she gave me a bottle of ink, eight sheets of paper, which she said
was all her store, (for now she would get me to write for her to our
master, if she had occasion,) and six pens, with a piece of sealing wax.
This looks mighty well.

She pressed me, when she came to bed, very much, to give encouragement
to Mr. Williams, and said many things in his behalf; and blamed my
shyness to him. I told her, I was resolved to give no encouragement,
till I had talked to my father and mother. She said, he fancied I
thought of somebody else, or I could never be so insensible. I assured
her, as I could do very safely, that there was not a man on earth I
wished to have: and as to Mr. Williams, he might do better by far: and I
had proposed so much happiness in living with my poor father and mother,
that I could not think of any scheme of life with pleasure, till I had
tried that. I asked her for my money; and she said, it was above in her
strong box, but that I should have it to-morrow. All these things look
well, as I said.

Mr. Williams would go home this night, though late, because he would
despatch a messenger to you with a letter he had proposed from himself,
and my packet. But pray don't encourage him, as I said; for he is much
too heady and precipitate as to this matter, in my way of thinking;
though, to be sure, he is a very goo