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Boston.
Neither change of place nor situation
can alienate my affections from you, or obliterate
my grateful remembrance of your kindness.
Your admonitions and counsels have been the
guide of my youth. The many advantages
which I have already received from them, and
the condescending readiness with which they
were always administered, embolden me to solicit
your direction and advice in a still more important
sphere. The recommendation of my
parents and friends, seconded by my own inclination,
have induced me to yield my heart and
engage my hand to Mr. Sylvanus Farmington,
with whose character you are not unacquainted.
Next Thursday is the era fixed for our union.
O madam, how greatly shall I need a monitor
like you! Sensible of my own impersections, I
look forward with diffidence and apprehension,
blended with pleasing hopes, to this new and
untried state!
Your experienced pen can teach me how to
discharge the duties, divide the cares, and enjoy
the pleasures, peculiar to the station on which I
am entering. Pray extend your benevolence,
in the connubial relation. Practising
upon such a model, I may still be worthy the
appellation, which it will ever be my ambition
to deserve, of your affectionate friend and pupil,
| The boarding school, or, Lessons of a preceptress to her pupils ; consisting of information, instruction, and advice, calculated to improve the manners, and form the character of young ladies ; to which is added, a collection of letters, written by the pupils, to their instructor, their friends, and each other | |