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(NOTE ENCLOSED.)

If you dare to set your foot within my father's house,
you shall be treated as you deserve, by the servants. I
will not see you. My opinions are well founded, and
not to be shaken. I shall be on my return to New-York,
when you receive this: and there is then, only one thing
that you can do, to alter or change my hatred and contempt
for you;—and that is, to repent and die. You have
slandered a woman, whose only fault was her tenderness

for you. You have not the courage, and the greatness
to acknowledge it: and, I believe, are too abject,
even to take the field in defence of your own miserable
villany. Farewell, sir. I do not pray that you may be
hanged, or drawn and quartered; no—but I do pray that
you may live, till your heart ache at the recollection of
your crime, as mine does at this moment, while I say that
I pray God, in his mercy, to forgive me for having pronounced
or written your name. Once more, farewell.—
Do not flatter yourself that I have avoided you from fear.
No.—I do not fear you; but I loathe and abhor you, as
something unnatural and base. You are welcome to
show this letter, if you dare;—the name I shall write,
at full length, giving you all the advantage of your
meanness; and you may show it, as I have no doubt that
you will, to prove that you are on good terms with one
of many, that detest and execrate you. I have told the
bearer to avoid you—that you were to be avoided and
shunned.