University of Virginia Library

LETTER XLVII.

To H. Colden.

Enclosed is a letter, which you may, if you think proper,
deliver to Mrs. Fielder. I am very ill. Don't attempt
to see me again. I cannot be seen. Let the enclosed satisfy
you. It is enough. Never should I have said so much,
if I thought I were long for this world.

Let me not have a useless enemy in you. I hope the
fatal effects of my rashness have not gone further than Mrs.
Talbot's family. Let the mischief be repaired, as far as it
can be; but do not injure me unnecessarily. I hope I am
understood.

Let me know what use you have made of the letter you
shewed me, and, I beseech you, return it to me by the
bearer.