-ferent times before this, I have been going to write to you, but the
melancholy subject of my dearest Betsey and my dear friend Mary (I
was going to smile and call her brother Molly,) was too ready
to to aid the ink's blackneƒs and tinge the whole sheet with its hue;
I therefore desisted till a more favourable moment should occur for
writing a miscellaneous letter.