CLARISSA. OR, THE HISTORY OF A YOUNG LADY: Comprehending The most Important Concerns of Private LIFE. And particularly fhewing, The Diftreffes that may attend the MISCONDUCT In Relation to MARRIAGE. VOL. VII. The SEVENTH EDITION. LONDON: Printed for J. and F. RIVINGTON, S. CROWDER, W. JOHN-- M DCC LXXIV. THE HISTORY O F CLARISSA HARLOWE. VO L. VII. LETTER I. Mifs CLARISSA HARLOWE, To Mrs. NORTON. My dear Mrs. Norton, Monday Night, July 24. AD I not fallen into fresh troubles, which H difabled me for several days from holding a pen, I fhould not have forborn enquiring after your health, and that of your Son; for I fhould have been but too ready to impute your filence to the cause, to which, to my very great concern, I find it was owing. I pray to Heaven, my dear good friend, to give you comfort in the way moft defirable to yourself. I am exceedingly concerned at Mifs Howe's writing about me to my friends. I do affure you, that I was as ignorant of her intention fo to do, as of the contents of her Letter. Nor has the yet let me know B 2 (dif |