LETTER 455
Miss Howe, to Miss Clarissa Harlowe
LETTER 455Visible text2 paragraphs
Tuesday, Aug. 29
My Dearest Friend,
We are at length returned to our own home. I had intended to wait on you in London: but my mother is very ill -- Alas! my dear, she is very ill indeed -- and you are likewise very ill -- I see that by yours of the 25th -- What shall I do, if I lose two such near, and dear, and tender friends? She was taken ill yesterday at our last stage in our return home -- and has a violent surfeit and fever, and the doctors are doubtful about her.
We are at length returned to our own home. I had intended to wait on you in London: but my mother is very ill -- Alas! my dear, she is very ill indeed -- and you are likewise very ill -- I see that by yours of the 25th -- What shall I do, if I lose two such near, and dear, and tender friends? She was taken ill yesterday at our last stage in our return home -- and has a violent surfeit and fever, and the doctors are doubtful about her.