glad that her friend's son can now "think of moving to the country" with his "interesting wife", and hoping that their anxiety "may in time be happily removed", she is "much concerned" that her servant did not recognize "Charlotte and Mrs. Cox" when they called, she continues "Do not be alarmed. at the sight of another felis, from a near relation of Theresa Tidy", the success [of her 'Eighteen Maxims of Neatness and Order'] "has seduced me like an unfledged gamester to expose a pittance of property made ten years ago for my own children", a "sort of exercise for grown Misses", deploring the fashion of teaching girls Latin in the hope of their learning English grammar "without once applying or even comparing the rules", the engravings fall very short of the designs by her son John, particularly "the lourd figure of Mercury, who was intended to burst from an envellope of clouds", and enquiring if her friend's franks would stretch to sending a copy to Bath, she discusses a mistake, which the antiquary Lysons has promised to rectify "on the first opportunity", that "the elder branch is the younger", but which her son intends to let pass, 4 sides 4to., Gower Street, 14th April 'Theresa Tidy' also published in verse 'A Selection of fables from Florian and other authors', 1837. Seller Inventory # 52071

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Title: Long Autograph Letter Signed to 'dear Sir', ...

Publication Date: 1818

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