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LETTER CXCII.

The southern mail is late to-day: it is half past two, and
your letter, enclosed herein, is just received. I must request
that my last to you be not put out of your possession.
So much of it as is extracted from that to Mrs. Crocket,
which I declined to send, you can extract and send her, but
no more. It is marked, I think, with inverted commas. Or,
if you enclose it to me, I will make the proper extract, and
send it to you, together with the letter itself—I mean mine
to you.

That to which I referred, as having been written on the
same morning, I have recovered, and retain.

I am very sorry to learn that E. is so seriously indisposed.
I fear she will go the way of her poor sister. My love to
her, when you see her. I am myself worn down, and have
suffered unutterably during the last twenty hours. Adieu!