Volume 1, Letter 9
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17981798

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Author : Mary Wollstonecraft

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Tuesday Morning [December 31.]

Though I have just sent a letter off,
yet, as captain —— offers to take one,
I am not willing to let him go without
a kind greeting, because trifles of this
sort, without having any effect on my
mind, damp my spirits:—and you, with
all your struggles to be manly, have
some of this same sensibility.—Do not
bid it begone, for I love to see it
striving to master your features; besides,
these kind of sympathies are the life of
affection: and why, in cultivating our
understandings, should we try to dry up
these springs of pleasure, which gush
out to give a freshness to days browned
by care!

The books sent to me are such as
we may read together; so I shall not
look into them till you return; when
you shall read, whilst I mend my stockings.

Yours truly                


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     Volume 1, Letter 9 -- Publication : November 30, 1797

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