{[I think with pleasure that I shall soon take this little
solitary hermit out of confinement & enjoy the reward
of my own resolution in having parted from her by
the talents & accomplishments it has been the means of her
acquiring. You may be certain my dear of being
indulged everything that it is in my power to grant
you & therefore Mlle {?Douir} may again upon your liking
Her & giving her so good a character, rest assured of
remaining with you.]} I hope she will know how to dress
Hair perfectly well & be handy in making caps or
handkerchiefs &c. The Mere Generale gives her a very good
Character. I have not yet had any letter from Lady
Anastatia about the plan. You so prettily mention saying
that you wait to think if you shall like it till you
hear my opinion." Now my love, I cannot bear to {?dress}
you in anything, & therefore if you wish much for this
scheme to take place, it shall. But perhaps it would be
better to go there only for two or three days & then return to


the Ursulines as it will be more polite to them, for me to
take you out my self from under their protection than
for you to leave the place in the manner you mention.
especially as a fortnight or three weeks more or less may
make some difference with your Masters who cannot follow
you there, so if you wish to pass two or three days at
the Blue Nuns before I come to Paris & that the Mere
Generale can {?settle} {?properly} to send you. I have no objection
to it. But I think I should wish to find you at the
Ursulines when we arrive which I'm afraid will not
be before the beginning of September, but certainly not
later. [illeg] will return to Paris in September
to plague us. He never writes to me. Your uncle is
his correspondent to whom he addresses along relations
of his journey. When he wrote last he was at Pau in
Languedoc I believe. {[Miss Barbara Webb (daughter
to Mr John Webb & a pretty lady Webb whom you may
just remember to have seen when you were very little) has
married the Earl of Shaftesbury, a Protestant. She is a Catholick

was brought up at the English Nuns at Louvain &
afterwards at Port Royal in Paris. She is 24 & reckoned
pretty, her father has given her a very large fortune if
He chuses it. What has brought on their match I can’t tell.
I think the Catholick ladies seemed to be in fashion.]}
Where [damaged] object that we view
is form’d for taste and fancy too,
giving to genius ample store
for volumes of poetic Lore.
No wonder wits should pen a lay
their debt of gratitude to pay
and Cossey's Album sweetly Grace
with though they borrow from the Place.
But I who ne’er could boast a muse
must silent admiration chuse.
Yet Vanity says in my ear
your name at Cossey must appear
so Pray you Criticks Pardon me
I'm no impostor but E. Leigh

July the 30^th 1785
this is Mrs Leigh's album & except the last line very
well

I beg you will present my best compliments to the Mere Generale.
I am so hurried today that I cannot as I had proposed
write to her but I think certainly do so in a very
few days. In the mean while you may give her a positive
answer about your having the maid , which is what she

wished for to know. How dos Miss Hawkins like Panthemont
& what has become of Miss Constable? Your Papa, uncles the General
& Neddy send their kindest love to you. Adieu my dearest
girl and I love {^^you} as you deserve to be loved & that is saying
a great deal. Adieu ma chere petite.

[change of orientation]
France p^as p^d to London
Madmoiselle
A Mademoiselle Jerningham aux Dames
Ursulines Rue St Jacques
a Paris

{[I think with pleasure that I shall soon take this little
solitary hermit out of confinement & enjoy the reward
of my own resolution in having parted from her by
the talents & accomplishments it has been the means of her
acquiring. You may be certain my dear of being
indulged everything that it is in my power to grant
you & therefore Mlle {?Douir} may again upon your liking
Her & giving her so good a character, rest assured of
remaining with you.]} I hope she will know how to dress
Hair perfectly well & be handy in making caps or
handkerchiefs &c. The Mere Generale gives her a very good
Character. I have not yet had any letter from Lady
Anastatia about the plan. You so prettily mention saying
that you wait to think if you shall like it till you
hear my opinion." Now my love, I cannot bear to {?dress}
you in anything, & therefore if you wish much for this
scheme to take place, it shall. But perhaps it would be
better to go there only for two or three days & then return to


the Ursulines as it will be more polite to them, for me to
take you out my self from under their protection than
for you to leave the place in the manner you mention.
especially as a fortnight or three weeks more or less may
make some difference with your Masters who cannot follow
you there, so if you wish to pass two or three days at
the Blue Nuns before I come to Paris & that the Mere
Generale can {?settle} {?properly} to send you. I have no objection
to it. But I think I should wish to find you at the
Ursulines when we arrive which I'm afraid will not
be before the beginning of September, but certainly not
later. [illeg] will return to Paris in September
to plague us. He never writes to me. Your uncle is
his correspondent to whom he addresses along relations
of his journey. When he wrote last he was at Pau in
Languedoc I believe. {[Miss Barbara Webb (daughter
to Mr John Webb & a pretty lady Webb whom you may
just remember to have seen when you were very little) has
married the Earl of Shaftesbury, a Protestant. She is a Catholic

was brought up at the English Nuns at Louvain &
afterwards at Port Royal in Paris. She is 24 & reckoned
pretty, her father has given her a very large fortune if
He choses it. What has brought on their match I can’t tell.
I think the Catholic ladies seemed to be in fashion.]}
Where [damaged] object that we view
is formed for taste and fancy too,
giving to genius ample store
for volumes of poetic Lore.
No wonder wits should pen a lay
their debt of gratitude to pay
and Cossey's Album sweetly Grace
with though they borrow from the Place.
But I who ne’er could boast a muse
must silent admiration chose.
Yet Vanity says in my ear
your name at Cossey must appear
so Pray you Critics Pardon me
I'm no impostor but E. Leigh

July the 30^th 1785
this is Mrs Leigh's album & except the last line very
well

I beg you will present my best compliments to the Mere Generale.
I am so hurried today that I cannot as I had proposed
write to her but I think certainly do so in a very
few days. In the mean while you may give her a positive
answer about your having the maid , which is what she

wished for to know. How dos Miss Hawkins like Panthemont
& what has become of Miss Constable? Your Papa, uncles the General
& Neddy send their kindest love to you. Adieu my dearest
girl and I love {^^you} as you deserve to be loved & that is saying
a great deal. Adieu ma chere petite.

[change of orientation]
France p^as p^d to London
Madmoiselle
A Mademoiselle Jerningham aux Dames
Ursulines Rue St Jacques
a Paris