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INTRODUCTION.

beseech God to give both them and us his blessing in this weighty affair, that she may prove every way a good wife for a very honest, good-natured man, as indeed, without any partiality, I think he is.

"My service to Mrs. Evelyn, with whom I do truly rejoice for her daughter's recovery. If it be not a trouble, present my service to Mrs. Draper. I wish her joy of her son.

"A. S."

The son^[1] thus alluded to lived only a year; and, upon hearing of its death, Lady Sunderland writes in this strain of condolence and complaint.

"August 15, 1695.

"Though I have the mortification to think myself quite forgotten by Mr. Evelyn, I have this to

↑ Evelyn gives the following account of the very comfortable establishment of the Draper family, in a letter to his friend, Dr. Bohon.—"My daughter Draper being brought to bed in the Christmas holidays of a fine boy, has given an heir to her most deserving husband—a prudent, well-natured gentleman, a man of business, like to be very rich, and deserving to be so, among the happiest pairs I think in England, and to my daughter's and our heart's desire. She has also a fine girl and a mother-in-law exceedingly fond of my daughter, and a most excellent woman, charitable, and of a very sweet disposition. They all live together, keep each their coach, and with as suitable an equipage as any in town."—Evelyn Memoirs, ii. 58.

[1] Evelyn gives the following account of the very comfortable establishment of the Draper family, in a letter to his friend, Dr. Bohon.—"My daughter Draper being brought to bed in the Christmas holidays of a fine boy, has given an heir to her most deserving husband—a prudent, well-natured gentleman, a man of business, like to be very rich, and deserving to be so, among the happiest pairs I think in England, and to my daughter's and our heart's desire. She has also a fine girl and a mother-in-law exceedingly fond of my daughter, and a most excellent woman, charitable, and of a very sweet disposition. They all live together, keep each their coach, and with as suitable an equipage as any in town."—Evelyn Memoirs, ii. 58.

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