Chapter XX: Letter XIX: To Mrs. C

Charles Street, July 4, 1775.

DEAR MADAM,

IT would be affronting your good-nature to offer an excuse for the trouble I am going to give you--my tale is short.--Mrs. O---- is with us--she was, this day, observing poor Lydia with a good deal of compassion--and said, she knew a child cured by roses boiled in new milk;--observed, that you had, at this very time, perhaps bushels of rose-leaves wasting on the ground.--Now my petition is--that you would cause a few of them to be brought you--(they will blush to find their sweetness excelled by your kindness)--they are good dryed, but better fresh--so when you come to town think of honest Lydia.--Mrs. O---- this morning saw your picture in Bond Street.--She approves much--and I fancy means to sit--she thinks that you enriched me with the strongest likeness--but the whole length the best.--I have the honor to transmit the compliments of Mesdames A---- and Sancho--to which permit me to add mine, with the most grateful sensibility for the recent favor of favors.--I am, dear madam,

Your most obliged,
humble servant,

IGN. SANCHO.