TO MISS CLARISSA HARLOWE TO BE LEFT AT MR. OSGOOD'S, NEAR SOHO-SQUARE
FRIDAY, APRIL 21.
It was expected you would send again to me, or to my aunt Hervey. The
enclosed has lain ready for you, therefore, by direction. You will have
no answer from any body, write to whom you will, and as often as you
will, and what you will.
It was designed to bring you back by proper authority, or to send you
whither the disgraces you have brought upon us all should be in the
likeliest way, after a while, to be forgotten. But I believe that design
is over: so you may range securely--nobody will think it worth while to
give themselves any trouble about you. Yet my mother has obtained leave
to send you your clothes of all sorts: but your clothes only. This is
a favour you'll see by the within letter not designed you: and now not
granted for your sake, but because my poor mother cannot bear in her
sight any thing you used to wear. Read the enclosed, and tremble.