Delph 29 Feb^y /79
Dear Sir
Think not strange that the books were delay^d
so long: I have been several times from
home & very busy when at home.
I do not by these or other books want to make
the young ladies Christians but they
may see that the prudent use of such
may make them understanding & the
Lord make them saints indeed.
If the later fits them for heaven, the
former will set them both for more use=
=fulness to others & comfort to themselves in
this life, both in the world and in their
own families if GOD graciously give them
such as he did to Jacob, and I remember
it was one of the ornaments of Israels King
David that his wife Abigail was a woman
of a good understanding & of a beautiful countenance
& tho she seen’d to be thrown away on Nabal
yet her prudence &c saved her property & her
husbands life & those of his men, perhaps
her own life also: & recommended her to a
share in honours of Israels Kingdom; &
I see no reason to think it disqualified her
For the Kingdom of Heaven.
The Lord make you & yours heirs of both Kingdoms
Yours. Unworthy H.Hunt
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P.S. I w^d recommend them a concern
For an abiding sense of their emptiness
& weakness both in Religion & Nature
together with a necessity of Supplies
in both for future usefulness.
Also the close devotion in the morning
before they appear in the family at all
by reading the Scrp: Med; & Prayer
That if curiosity urges them to read
these books (which are but an introduceⁿ
hastily; yet that afterward, each makes
one of the books her own proper task
for one hour each day regularly, then
to chance & take the other, & when
both are thus gone through let one
read & the other hear in turns
till they have digested grammar
history geography & Astronomy &c
The rest of the day for needle work
useful company &c
The Lord make all a pleasure
& it is sure to be a profit

Delph 29 Feb^y /79
Dear Sir
Think not strange that the books were delay^d
so long: I have been several times from
home & very busy when at home.
I do not by these or other books want to make
the young ladies Christians but they
may see that the prudent use of such
may make them understanding & the
Lord make them saints indeed.
If the later fits them for heaven, the
former will set them both for more use=
=fulness to others & comfort to themselves in
this life, both in the world and in their
own families if GOD graciously give them
such as he did to Jacob, and I remember
it was one of the ornaments of Israels King
David that his wife Abigail was a woman
of a good understanding & of a beautiful countenance
& tho she seen’d to be thrown away on Nabal
yet her prudence &c saved her property & her
husbands life & those of his men, perhaps
her own life also: & recommended her to a
share in honours of Israels Kingdom; &
I see no reason to think it disqualified her
For the Kingdom of Heaven.
The Lord make you & yours heirs of both Kingdoms
Yours. Unworthy H.Hunt
[new page]
P.S. I w^d recommend them a concern
For an abiding sense of their emptiness
& weakness both in Religion & Nature
together with a necessity of Supplies
in both for future usefulness.
Also the close devotion in the morning
before they appear in the family at all
by reading the Scrp: Med; & Prayer
That if curiosity urges them to read
these books (which are but an introduceⁿ
hastily; yet that afterward, each makes
one of the books her own proper task
for one hour each day regularly, then
to chance & take the other, & when
both are thus gone through let one
read & the other hear in turns
till they have digested grammar
history geography & Astronomy &c
The rest of the day for needle work
useful company &c
The Lord make all a pleasure
& it is sure to be a profit