Oh!
how I long to see you both, my dear good parents, and to share with you
my felicities!
You will have, I'm sure, the goodness to go to all your creditors, which
are chiefly those of my poor unhappy brothers, and get an account of all
you are bound for; and every one shall be paid to the utmost farthing,
and interest besides, though some of them have been very cruel and
unrelenting.--But they are entitled to their own, and shall be thankfully
paid.
Now I think of it, John shall take my papers down to this place; that you
may have something to amuse you, of your dear child's, instead of those
you part with; and I will continue writing till I am settled, and you are
determined; and then I shall apply myself to the duties of the family, in
order to become as useful to my dear benefactor, as my small abilities
will let me.
If you think a couple of guineas will be of use to Mrs. Mumford, who, I
doubt, has not much aforehand, pray give them to her, from me, (and I
will return them to you,) as for a pair of gloves on my nuptials: And
look through your poor acquaintances and neighbours, and let me have a
list of such honest industrious poor, as may be true objects of charity,
and have no other assistance; particularly such as are blind, lame, or
sickly, with their several cases; and also such poor families and
housekeepers as are reduced by misfortunes, as ours was, and where a
great number of children may keep them from rising to a state of
tolerable comfort: And I will choose as well as I can; for I long to be
making a beginning, with the kind quarterly benevolence my dear good
benefactor has bestowed upon me for such good purposes.
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