LETTERXIX.TO MRS. C——.
Charles Street, July 4, 1775.
DEAR MADAM,
IT would be affronting your good-nature to offer an excuse for the trouble I am going to give you—my tale is short.—Mrs. O—— is with us—she was, this day, observing poor Lydia with a good deal of compassion—and said, she knew a child cured by roses boiled in new milk;—observed, that you had, at this very time, perhaps bushels of rose-leaves wasting on the ground.—Now my petition is—that you would cause a few of them to be brought you—(they will blush to find their sweetness excelled by your kindness)—they are good dryed, but better fresh—so when you come to town think of honest Lydia.—Mrs. O—— this morning saw your picturein Bond Street.—She approves much—and I fancy means to sit—she thinks that you enriched me with the strongest likeness—but the whole length the best.—I have the honor to transmit the compliments of Mesdames A—— and Sancho—to which permit me to add mine, with the most grateful sensibility for the recent favor of favors.—I am, dear madam,
Your most obliged,
humble servant,
IGN. SANCHO.