of the servant who styles herself
Elizabeth, or Mrs. Newton. It runs:--

"MADAM,--Your Aunt Wishes me to inform you she will be glad if
you will let hir know if you think of coming To hir House thiss
month or Next as she cannot have you in September on a kount of
the Hoping If you ar coming she thinkes she had batter Go to
London on the Day you com to hir House she says you shall have
everry Thing raddy for you at hir House and Mrs. Newton to meet
you and stay with you till She returnes a gann.

"if you arnot Coming thiss Summer She will be in London before
thiss Month is out and will Sleep on the Sofy As She willnot be
in London more thann two nits. and She Says she willnot truble
you on anny a kount as She Will returne the Same Day before She
will plage you anny more. but She thanks you for asking hir to
London. but She says She cannot leve the house at prassant She
sayhir Survants ar to do for you as she cannot lodge yours nor
she willnot have thim in at the house anny more to brake and
destroy hir thinks and beslive hir and make up Lies by hir and
Skandel as your too did She says she mens to pay fore 2 Nits and
one day, She says the Pepelwill let hir have it if you ask thim
to let hir: you Will be so good as to let hir know sun: wish
She is to do, as She says She dos not care anny thing a bout it.
which way tiss she is batter than She was and desirs hir Love to
bouth bouth.

"Your aunt wises to know how the silk Clocks ar madup [how the
silk cloaks are made up] with a Cape or a wood as she is a goin
to have one madeup to rideout in in hir littel shas [chaise].

"Charles is a butty and so good.

"Mr & Mrs Newton ar quite wall & desires to be remembered to
you."

I can throw no light on the meaning of the verb to "beslive." Each
letter in the MS. is so admirably formed that there can be no
question about the word being as I have given it. Nor have I been
able to discover what is referred to by the words "Charles is a
butty and so good." We shall presently meet with a Charles who
"flies in the Fier," but that Charles appears to have been in
London, whereas this one is evidently in Kent, or wherever the aunt
lived.

The next letter is from Mrs. Newton:--

"DER MISS ---, I Receve your Letter your Aunt is vary Ill and
Lowspireted I Donte think your Aunt wood Git up all Day if My
Sister Wasnot to Persage her We all Think hir lif is two
monopolous. you Wish to know Who Was Liveing With your Aunt.
that is