Princess Anne July 24th '16
My beloved Elizth
Your letter from Germantown I recd yesterday and feel happy that you are settled at school; and yet more happy that Mrs. G thinks you have returned her "a good girl." Be obedient, be kind, and affectionate to her and you may rely on it she will answer it with encreased care and interest for your improvement. It is natural that she shou'd. No one in the world can feel the same solicitude for a wayward child's welfare, (even when interested to their care and it becomes their duty) that they can for an obedient and well regulated spirit.
I have not time now (as before) to enlarge and a short lesson too, is more impressive than a tedious one. In one word then, answer your mother's fond hopes. Be wise and well informed if you can. But at all events, it is in everyone's power to be amiable, virtous, and pious. Cousin Francis gave us a most logical and impressive sermon on Sunday. The subject was the importance of early discipline in