MY DEAR MRS. GASKELL,

If you were not the most suspicious of women, always looking for soft

sawder in the purest metal of praise, I should call your paper

delightful, and touched in the tenderest and most delicate manner. Being

what you are, I confine myself to the observation that I have called it

"A Love Affair at Cranford," and sent it off to the printer.

Faithfully yours ever.

[Sidenote: Mr. Peter Cunningham.]

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