the admiration of the many and no doubt the envy of the jealous. In me you will find but the timid and reserved girl fit only for the seclusion of a county village, such is not what your elevated refined taste should wish to adorn the mansion where the high, the learned, the man of cultivated talents will love to seek you out even in your retirement. In manner, in tact, in conversation perhaps I may be their equal but I am void of elegant accomplishments which is always pleasing to the refined. It is what I admire in others & sorely regret I'll not possess myself. My mind is too sensitive, too acute in detecting deficiences either too ambitious to soar beyond my capacities, for want of these I trust to you to see good sense to excuse me thinking that I have not had advantages for what is the labour of a lifetime, besides it does not detract from the dignity of a lady that she is not musical. She may possess other qualifications quite as recommendable. We did not think that Govr G Browne & yourself were so personally friendly