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ungrateful were I not to acknowledge more years of kindness & polite attentions than I could now suppose so lively a character as yours capable of paying to any woman, & however fallen & mortifying I may feel my present fortunes, I have never regretted the time I devoted to you, since I owe to it powers of enjoyment without which riches could afford me little gratification. I can now as my friend M.^rs ?Lane Clarke happily expresses it “retire to my closet with the best company” & look down upon that world by which I am despised.

For what little ?aquisition \proficiency/ I have made also in music I am wholly indebted to you as I ?have had not advanced far enough in that difficult science when I married to amuse myself, & but for your prohibition I should have given it up. My Piano Forte is now my greatest resource when alone, & a Concert (at which I used to tire) is become my highest entertainment you see therefore that I am disposed to end our late hostile correspondence by rendering you ample Justice

As far as self is concerned I shall speak \to you/ no farther upon money matters - but make it my endeavour to grow reconciled to my destiny There is however one subject which, as we are never to meet again, I cannot resist repeating to you by letter (for I recollect to have once spoken of it) & you were not angry.

It is to intreat [sic] that you will suffer no refinements of delicacy or false pride to prevent your making