Princess Anne. March 19th 1815
I give myself not a little credit, my dear Elizabeth, that I have indeed, been able to read your two letters, with only the exception of a few sentences, which were above my capacity. Your Sibyllic characters require, at least, one of the seven wise men, or Sibyl herself, to expound, to a letter. So much by way of a continuation of the hints I have before given you on that subject. As your ideas are really pretty, nay, almost “brilliant,” to use your own phrase, it is a thousand pities that one is almost inclin’d to despair of deciphering them, and to put your letters away in utter hopelessness without giving one's self any further trouble about what might, at the first glance, be taken for an enigma. In such a case, two persons wou’d lose: you, the credit which is due