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30 Juvenile Letters.

I have learned Watts' Divine Songs all by heart. Do send me another pretty book.

I am, dear sister,
Your affectionate brother,
JAMES MEANWELL.
Miss Maria Meanwell.

LETTER XIII.
Answer to the foregoing.
Boston, Sept. 20th, 1802.

DEAR BROTHER,

I WAS no less happy in receiving, than you were in writing your letter. I highly approve of your preceptor's play. Much the same practice is pursued in our school. It is very encouraging to children, to have the privilege of writing letters; and practice is very necessary to accomplish one in that useful art. 

I am glad you pay such attention to your spelling. I saw nothing incorrect in your letter. This was not the case with a letter I lately 


31 Juvenile Letters.

lately received, from one whose name it would be ungenerous to mention; which was written in an elegant hand, but spoiled by the misspelling of seven or eight words. I refused to show it to the young ladies at our academy, through fear of exposing my friend. 

I send you the requested specimens of penmanship. Mr. P----'s pupils,myself excepted, have been justly celebrated for their elegant hand writing; and none more so, than his own amiable daughters. Perhaps it would be thought vain in me to say, that it is the opinion of some of the best judges, that they are not outdone by the youth of either sex in this town.

I also send you little "Geographical Catechism,' to get by heart, and the "Pilgrim's Progress," to read at your leisure. And little Charlotte P--, of six years old, begs me to send my sister Eliza, in her name, the little porringer, as she calls it. She means by that, her favourite ballad, entitled WE ARE SEVEN. She repeats it twenty times in a day; and it is very much admired among the children. By this

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