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Dear Henry

I thank you most sincerely for thinking of me on this happy event, ¹ & most cordially rejoice with you & the dear Mama ² on the birth of another little darling; I do love to have two Girls next to each other, & your two dear Sisters, ³ may have taught you the comfort of it; & I assure you Constance will feel it hereafter, when teaching begins, tho just now Ela must seem a person of such magnitude & importance in comparison to the little Poppet it must appear as if they could never be learning the same things – may GOD bless & prosper both & your education of them when it does begin! I very much approve of Ela’s as yet; she cannot I am sure have been allowed to obtain her wishes by urging, or she would not be so good & docile as well as so engaging Pray give my very kind love & warm congratulations to dear Constance & accept every kind wish to you both & for the two Miss Talbots from Augusta, ⁴ who rejoices most sincerely for & with you both

Ever d^r Henry
y^r aff^ate Aunt

M Feilding

Thursd^y 16^th March