Dear Madam

I am exceedingly obliged to you for this kind gift of good old Mrs Pascoe’s letters. She was indeed a most amusing and clever correspondent and her letters were always a great pleasure to my mother and me. I never saw her, but I heard of her from two old neighbours, Mrs Keble, who used to see her at Penzance and Mr Arthur Johns who was an old neighbour.

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