never written to her and she says if you study etiquette that it was your place to write first. Now puss I often find that you neglect these little agreeable duties that might raise you much in the estimation of my friends, for instance I did not think you have yet acknowledged Dr Sinclair's kind note, and what must he think of you. Excuses will not satisfy a person of his knowledge and penetration therefore do not procrastinate in these matters otherwise we may both have occasion to regret it. I am much pleased with the tone in which your last letters are written and I may say that I at least cannot find fault with you for not corresponding