I ought not to have written to you before leaving, because you are a naughty baby not to have called on Friday - I am going away to morrow perhaps I may not come back for a long time I should have wished to see you before I went, but that is now impossible -
I saw Mr Savage on Friday and I asked him if you were come backp2safe he does not believe that you have been to Paris - Mrs Grainger told me to day that you spent the day with them on Friday but I did not ask any questions - I hope dear brother[1] that I may trust that on any account you will never tell Mrs Grainger that I ever wrote to you for you know that by doing so you would get your poor little sister in great trouble -
And now I must tell you, what I have often told to God already that I hope and wish withp3all my heart that you may get on well this year and become very very pious Oh dear brother Charlie let us try to love God as much as we can He is so good and loves us so much - Life will be so soon passed. and at our death-bed we shall be so happy to have done something for Him who has done so much for us - I shall pray for you and you must do the same for me; later when you are a Priest[2] then I shall tell you a great many things that I can’tp4tell you now -
Don’t be offended at all what I have said you know I don’t think much when I write to you - Now I must leave you so good-bye -
Elizabeth sends her best love - I hope when I shall come back to find you quite well in mind and body.
Dont keep this letter in your pocket as you always do - how is Mr Wade - Tell him not to go to those Righways again. ta-ta good night -







