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Juvenile Letters
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Mrs. P---- said to me, this morning, on hearing your name mentioned. "Your mamma," said she, "is always intent, that she may catch every opportunity of instilling virtuous principles into the minds of her children. She is incessantly engaged in watching over them, that she may correct all that is amiss in their behaviour. Does not your heart glow with gratitude and affection, when you consider her cares?" It does, indeed, said I ; but I blush to confess, that I so often forget her admonitions, or do not remember them at the instant when I ought to put them in practice.
With sincere love and respect, I am,
Dear Mamma,
Your dutiful daughter,
MARIA MEANWELL
Mrs. Mary Meanwell.
LETTER
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Juvenile Letters.
LETTER XV.
From a Box of ten years of age to one of thirteen.
Newburyport.
DEAR COUSIN,
I HAVE heard much said in favour of the Boston schools, and should be glad if you would tell me something more particular about them. As our master requires us to write one or two letters a week, for his inspection, I thought, by commencing a correspondence with boys of other schools, something useful might be communicated on both sides.
I wish to know what books you study ; whether you have any new ones to recommend ; and whether you practise letter-writing. I hear there are several new sets of copper-plate copies, lately done in Boston, and some new pieces. I wish much to see them. Is it a fact, that you boys let the girls beat you in writing?
In this town, if we do not improve, is it our own fault ; for we have good teachers. Great harmonyTranscription Notes:
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