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A Collection of Letters

Letter the first

From a Mother to her freind.

My Children begin now to claim all my at::tention in a different Mannerfromto that in which they have been used to receive it, as they are now arrived at that age when it isneceſsary for them in some measure to be--come conversant with the World. My Augustais 17 & her Sister scarcely a twelvemonth younger. I flatter myself that their education has been such as will not disgrace theirappearance in the World, & that they willnot disgrace their Education I have every rea::son to beleive. Indeed they are sweet Girls –.

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