Volume 1, Letter 15
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17981798

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Author : Mary Wollstonecraft

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Sunday Morning.

I wrote to you yesterday, my ——;
but, finding that the colonel is still detained
(for his passport was forgotten at
the office yesterday) I am not willing to
let so many days elapse without your
hearing from me, after having talked
of illness and apprehensions.

I cannot boast of being quite recovered,
yet I am (I must use my Yorkshire
phrase; for, when my heart is
warm, pop come the expressions of
childhood into my head) so lightsome,
that I think it will not go badly with
me.—And nothing shall be wanting on
my part, I assure you; for I am urged
on, not only by an enlivened affection
for you, but by a new-born tenderness
that plays cheerly round my dilating
heart.

I was therefore, in defiance of cold
and dirt, out in the air the greater part
of yesterday; and, if I get over this
evening without a return of the fever
that has tormented me, I shall talk no
more of illness. I have promised the
little creature, that its mother, who
ought to cherish it, will not again
plague it, and begged it to pardon me;
and, since I could not hug either it or
you to my breast, I have to my heart.—I
am afraid to read over this prattle—but
it is only for your eye.

I have been seriously vexed, to find
that, whilst you were harrassed by impediments
in your undertakings, I was
giving you additional uneasiness.—If
you can make any of your plans answer—it
is well, I do not think a little money
inconvenient; but, should they fail, we
will struggle cheerfully together—drawn
closer by the pinching blasts of
poverty.

Adieu, my love! Write often to
your poor girl, and write long letters;
for I not only like them for being longer,
but because more heart steals into them;
and I am happy to catch your heart
whenever I can.

Yours sincerely                

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     Volume 1, Letter 15 -- Publication : November 30, 1797

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