646 - Martin Madan to Judith Cowper, 1723
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My Dear Miss Cowper, I think you complain the
stile of my last was too free, recollect, you’ll find, it
was just wt you dictated to me, the Evening before
I (since I’ve known wt Life was) xxx have been subservient
even to yr nod, can I offend in following yr Sentiments?
but you tell me you are but half awake, therefore
shall defer this subject till 3 Clock
With wt Pleasure do I view yr last nights Epistle
I must believe those protestations true, I think in
some measure I deserve them, if Love, sincerity &
Honour can plead merit, This is wt I’ve assur’d you
a Thousand times, & surely will for ever – I’ve company
just come in, Battle &c I must conclude yours Entirely
M Madan
Monday One Clock
stile of my last was too free, recollect, you’ll find, it
was just wt you dictated to me, the Evening before
I (since I’ve known wt Life was) xxx have been subservient
even to yr nod, can I offend in following yr Sentiments?
but you tell me you are but half awake, therefore
shall defer this subject till 3 Clock
With wt Pleasure do I view yr last nights Epistle
I must believe those protestations true, I think in
some measure I deserve them, if Love, sincerity &
Honour can plead merit, This is wt I’ve assur’d you
a Thousand times, & surely will for ever – I’ve company
just come in, Battle &c I must conclude yours Entirely
M Madan
Monday One Clock
My Dear Miss Cowper, I think you complain the
stile of my last was too free, recollect, you’ll find, it
was just wt you dictated to me, the Evening before
I (since I’ve known wt Life was) xxx have been subservient
even to yr nod, can I offend in following yr Sentiments?
but you tell me you are but half awake, therefore
shall defer this subject till 3 Clock
With wt Pleasure do I view yr last nights Epistle
I must believe those protestations true, I think in
some measure I deserve them, if Love, sincerity &
Honour can plead merit, This is wt I’ve assured you
a Thousand times, & surely will for ever – I’ve company
just come in, Battle &c I must conclude yours Entirely
M Madan
Monday One Clock
stile of my last was too free, recollect, you’ll find, it
was just wt you dictated to me, the Evening before
I (since I’ve known wt Life was) xxx have been subservient
even to yr nod, can I offend in following yr Sentiments?
but you tell me you are but half awake, therefore
shall defer this subject till 3 Clock
With wt Pleasure do I view yr last nights Epistle
I must believe those protestations true, I think in
some measure I deserve them, if Love, sincerity &
Honour can plead merit, This is wt I’ve assured you
a Thousand times, & surely will for ever – I’ve company
just come in, Battle &c I must conclude yours Entirely
M Madan
Monday One Clock
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Martin Madan to Judith Cowper, 1723
Further discussion of expressions of feeling, and the implication that Madan’s previous letters had been too forthcoming in expressing his feelings towards her. He doesn’t understand how he has offended her when he has just repeated her feelings back to her.
Madan Family
Eng Lett C.284 f.25
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
1723
[England]
[England]
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Person: Martin Madan
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- reading
- talking
- visiting
- writing
hurried
- feeling
- love (romantic)
- pleasure
- disposition
- self
courting
Person: Judith Madan
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- sleeping
- talking
tired
- feeling
- love (romantic)
self
courting