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Tuesday, May 2 With infinite regret I am obliged to tell you, that I can no longer write to you, or receive letters from you.
-- Your mother has sent me a letter enclosed in a cover to Mr. Lovelace, directed for him at Lord M. 's, (and which was brought him just now), reproaching me on this subject in very angry terms, and forbidding me, "as I would not be thought to intend to make her and you unhappy, to write to you without her leave."