considered a correspondence between Girls as produc::tive of no good, and as the frequent origin of im::prudence & Error by the effect of pernicious adviceand bad Example. She could not therefore refrain from saying that for her part, she had lived fifty Years in the world without having ever had a corres::pondent, and did not find herself at all the leſsrespectable for it –. M^rs Stanley could say nothingin answer to this, but her Daughter who wasleſs governed by Propriety, said in her thoughtleſsway, "But who knows what you might havebeen Ma'am, if you had had a Correspondent; perhaps it would have made you quite a different Creature. I declare I would not be without thoseI have for all the World. It is the greatest de::light of my Life, and you cannot think how muchtheir Letters have formed my taste as Mamasays, for I hear from them generally every week."

"You received a Letter from Augusta^^Barlow to day, did not youmy Love? said her Mother –. She writes remarkablywell I know."