Miss Dix
I this morning received your favour & thank you for
the Friendship and Confidence therein contained & am sorry to see
Affliction [?bears] so great a Pant, the cause of which I am ignoran{^t}
of but am allways willing to Alleviate it as much as in me lies
I accordingly went this morning to the schoold & saw him &
he says his Father is not in Town or he would of heard of it, he has
not heard from him since he left London & was then in good health
which was about 9 weeks before Michaelmass, that he then proposed
coming to town about Michaelmass but has not.
Which intelligence is all I could attain & hope will compose
your mind tho' as I know not what has alarmed you I cannot
Judge of the Reception of the above. I would wish you could
always receive afflictions with w{^th} a Christian Fortitude remembering
that Perhaps, if may be to try your Patience or ‘[illeg] to correct
your errors, for "whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth
"every son whom he receiveth".
My sister desired me to write to inform you that my mother
cannot let Patty supply her place on Sunday therefore we sould be
glad of your Company with us & I hope yo meet you at S{^t}. An-
drews Holborn in the Afternoon to hear m{s} Winter preach
a Charity Sermon when I hope to meet you [?divided] of that unhappines which I suppose you are
now possesed of & was when I last parted with you.
I may Accept the above with the Sincerity it is meant from your sincere friend
Dec{^M}. 16.78