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LXI. Rev. Ed. Roberts of Dinbren, Wales,

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LXIX. Right Hon. Lady Eleanor Butler, and Miss

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VOL. V.

LETTERS

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ANNA SEWARD.

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LETTERS.

LETTER I.

MRS CHILDERS of Yorkshire.

Oct. 17, 1797.

I HAVE been but a short time at home: your letter, with nine others, met me on my arrival, after waiting for me some weeks with unbroken seals. Immediately on my return, drawn into a vortex of visiting engagements, and my mornings sacrificed to calls of welcome, I have as yet not been able to resume the dropt reins of my employments, domestic and epistolary ;—yet to solicitude, kind as yours, I cannot be silent. My health is better for my excursion, which no return of the frightful hemorrhage annoyed, aud my visits in Wales, on my circuit home, gave me those charms of confidential affection and intellectual participation, which the cold, ceremonial, and vapid society of High-Lake could not afford. I

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