_From the same to the same._
My dear Lucy will need no apology for my sending by the usual method,
little more than the inclosed Memoirs of the _Flint Family_, with which
the captain favoured me last Friday. The perusal of the manuscript has
very much chilled my christian charity for Miss Lucretia; but I strive
against temptation, and try to say with Mrs. Allen, "Alas! my dear Miss
Cowley, this unhappy being is entitled to commiseration! Can you wish
her a more severe punishment than her own wretched mind?" You, my
Lucy, will not. But read and judge for yourself.