you have given me to tell my own story previous to any new accident
(which heaven avert!) is so like the warm friend I have ever found in
my dear Miss Howe, that, with redoubled obligation, you bind me to be

Your ever grateful and affectionate,
CLARISSA HARLOWE.


Copy of the requested Preamble to the clauses in her Grandfather's
Will: inclosed in the preceding Letter.


As the particular estate I have mentioned and described above, is
principally of my own raising: as my three sons have been uncommonly
prosperous; and are very rich: the eldest by means of the unexpected
benefits he reaps from his new found mines; the second, by what has,
as unexpectedly, fallen in to him on the deaths of several relations
of his present wife, the worthy daughter by both sides of very
honourable families; over and above the very large portion which he
received with her in marriage: my son Antony by his East-India
traffic, and successful voyages: as furthermore my grandson James will
be sufficiently provided for by his grandmother Lovell's kindness to
him; who, having no near relations, hath assured me, that she hath, as
well by deed of gift as by will, left him both her Scottish and
English estates: for never was there a family more prosperous in all
its branches, blessed be God therefore: and as my said son James will
very probably make it up to my grand-daughter Arabella; to whom I
intend no disrespect; nor have reason; for she is a very hopeful and
dutiful child: and as my sons, John and Antony, seem not inclined to a
married life; so that my son James is the only one who has children,