LETTER CCCXIII

MADAM: As some day must be fixed for sending the boys to school, do you

approve of the 8th of next month? By which time the weather will probably

be warm and settled, and you will be able to equip them completely.

I will upon that day send my coach to you, to carry you and the boys to

Loughborough House, with all their immense baggage. I must recommend to

you, when you leave them there, to suppress, as well as you can, the

overgrowings of maternal tenderness; which would grieve the poor boys the

more, and give them a terror of their new establishment. I am, with great

truth, Madam, your faithful, humble servant,

CHESTERFIELD.

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