Princess Anne. Ocb. 8th '15-
My beloved child
I am at home and alone. Need I say how much I feel the want of your society. Think, my love, of the great sacrifice I make to your welfare and reward me for it. I feel that you will. When the necessity of separation is at an end, when you return to your father’s house, then I shall reap the benefit of the moments I now so painfully count in absence. Then I shall enjoy the conversation, not only of my beloved child, but of an intelligent and lovely friend, and companion. This keeps my spirits up, even when I forget, in my regret, the advantages you are deriving. We are selfish creatures. I ought not, for a moment, to regret your absence from me. Neither shou’d you. Think only of the happiness I shall feel in seeing you a lovely accomplish’d woman, and I know you will not repine. Be good, be virtuous; my child. Make your mother happy in having given you birth. Guard your heart from the slightest taint of corruption. Guard your very thoughts. Those who compel themselves to think with purity must, of course, act with purity in all things. But I am beginning