Posthumous Works of Mary Wollstonecraft/Volume 3/Letter 46
LETTER XLVI.
June 15.
I want to know how you have settled with respect to . In short, be very particular in your account of all your affairs—let our confidence, my dear, be unbounded.—The last time we were separated, was a separation indeed on your part—Now you have acted more ingenuously, let the most affectionate interchange of sentiments fill up the aching void of disappointment. I almost dread that your plans will prove abortive—yet should the most unlucky turn send you home to us, convinced that a true friend is a treasure, I should not much mind having to struggle with the world again. Accuse me not of pride—yet sometimes, when nature has opened my heart to its author, I have wondered that you did not set a higher value on my heart.
Receive a kiss from , I was going to add, if you will not take one from me, and believe me yours
Sincerely
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The wind still continues in the same quarter.