Not even you, Dear Sir, with your fine and strong imagination, can easily conceive how happy you have made me by your kind present; I had just given the former volumes another reading with fresh pleasure, and was repining that it could not be till February next (as I thought from the Hint you dropped when I last had the pleasure of seeing you) that I should be able to read the remainder of that valuable work; I envied our good Friend the Speaker the privilege of seeing it sheet by sheet as it came from the press; and yet at the same time my impatience would ill have brooked having it retailed to me in such niggardly portions; and I should have thought every Post as tedious as a tired horse. In the midst of these reflections it was the most agreeable surprise to receive the three remaining volumes, which I go to with so much eagerness, that I can hardly have the manners to stay to thank you for them, but I do it most heartily again and again, both for producing such a work, and for the distinction you give me by the present. And now wishing all manner of happiness to you and your’s, I hasten to my Dear Clarissa, and am Your very much obliged and Obedient Servant,

I find, Dear Sir, that if I put off my acknowledgments to the Author of the Divine Clarissa till I can meet with words that will fully express what I think and feel on that Subject, I must for ever seem either insensible or ungrateful.