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SOCIABLE LETTERS.
I.
MADAM,
YOu were pleas'd to desire, that, since we cannot converse Personally, we should converse by Letters, so as if we were speaking to each other, discoursing our Opinions, discover∣ing our Designs, asking and giving each other Advice, also telling the several Accidents, and several Imployments of our home-affairs, and what visits we receive, or entertainments we make, and whom we visit, and how we are entertaind, what discourses we have in our gossiping-meetings, and what reports we hear of publick affairs, and of particular Per∣sons, and the like; so that our Letters may present our personal meetings and asso∣ciatings. Truly, Madam, I take so much de∣light in your wise, witty, and virtuous Con∣versation, as I could not pass my life more plea∣sing