I wish you would represent these things to him; for my own part, I live in so much uneasiness about it, that I sometimes weary of life itself." [October ( ?) 1721.] "I cannot forbear (dear sister) accusing you of unkindness that you take so little care of a business of the last consequence to me.

R.[Remond] writ to me some time ago, to say if I would immediately send him L2,000 sterling, he would send me an acquittance.

As this was sending him several hundreds out of my own pocket, I absolutely refused it; and, in return, I have just received a threatening letter, to print I know not what stuff against me.

I am too well acquainted with the world (of which poor Mrs.Murray's affair is a fatal instance), not to know that the most groundless accusation is always of ill consequence to a woman; besides the cruel misfortune it may bring upon me in my own family.

If you have any compassion either for me or my innocent children, I am sure you will try to prevent it.