1st sheet} June 26th 1803 Princess Anne
Already, my dear sister, do I reproach myself with deserving the character of a lazy correspondent which degrading epithet I saucily attached to you not 6 months since, and as indulging in any evil propensity will strengthen the tie which binds your mind to it, I am resolv’d to struggle ‘till I free myself from the strong one I feel to the Daemon Idleness. We are so prone to charge others with faults when we are on the verge of committing those faults ourselves, nay often in the constant practice of them, that I begin to think it a good rule to prepare to amend an error in our own hearts the instant we discover that error in a friend. If people wou’d only employ themselves in this laudable manner instead of making it their business to Trumpet the faults of their neighbours, how