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Image #1 of letter: Edward Baker to Polly Dix, 24 March 1779

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Miss Dix
I this Afternoon Received your kind Epistle & take
the earliest opportunity to fulfill your request of sending an
impression of my Seal & inform you that my sister declines
coming on Friday next.
Perhaps (for I do not know) my Mother may take this
opportunity to break off the friendship between you & my sister
"Whatsoever is is best"; my Sister is Ignorant of the Value
of a Sincere Disinterested friendship & therefore not unnatu-
-rally has often supported my friendship with you to be from
another Source, an Error which I fancy she still in her Mind
believes & no doubt communicates, which if the Intimacy ceaces
may perhaps be forgot.
I hope your expected Friend in this long absence has got
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such a Settlement as to make good all your disappointment by
a settlement for Life & add One to the Scanty number of my
Sincere Friends.
I sincerely thank you for ~~the~~ your Prayers & wish I was
as regular in my Duty to return the same for you as heretofore,
for since my residence in this house my Conduct has much
degenerated & I who for 7 or 8 Years I suppose never closed my
Eye, without Petitioning for your welfare, now scarce afford
a thought that way, tho I hope you will not Impute it to a
Decay of friendship but a Degeneracy of Living which
with the blessing of God I hope to amend, beginning at this time
of the Seperation of our Family
March 24th 79 I remain &c
P.S. I hope to be with you on Saturday Night

3327 - Edward Baker to Polly Dix, 24 March 1779