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I don't know why one should be so anxious
about them unless she wishes to keep them
in remembrance of the happy period when
she kock'd the young gentleman down
with the candlesticks and then jumped over
him. – I sent you by Louisa the manuscript
I promised you – and the deed I promised my
brother. I believe I have not written to you
since. I order'd Joseph to send you the Ivy
which he was to have done a week ago –
I wish you to have some of it, as it is not
only a beautiful but a [***ical] creeper. It
would be the very thing to run over that
tree which Mr Gibbon had to much
malice against being very hardy. It be
ing no trouble to tack it up –
Poor cousin Molly is yet in great
distress – and not well otherwise – Her affliction
seems to be renew'd every time she sees one
of her friends – she has never been out of the
house, and her chief occupation is reading
Betty's letters over and over again – Her
grief is unaffected, no one can doubt; but
I think she does wrong not only to [indu-]
but to encourage it – It has been []