not too much vanity to Suppose you w^d wish to preserve

them a moment beyond reading them) that you will burn all my Letters; tell me Seriously you will do so! for there is nothing I dread like having all one's nonsense appear in print by some untoward accident—not accident neither, but wicked or interested design, pray do me the fav^r to ask at our House why my precious Clay has not been Sent, and tell me Something about it when you write again. Adieu."