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But to Gibraltar & not received till March 1816

dated Apl. 2 1815

My dearest Miss Fielding - I put off answering your Letter sent me by your Sister Mrs Hicks on account of the Uncertainty of any possibility occurring to send it with any Security. By the last Note Yr Sister wrote there is a prospect of transmitting some accounts from home to the Part of the World You are gone to, & I seize the very addition first /addition opportunity to assure You, that I am so fully persuaded of Yr Uprightness & Steadiness of Character that had you not by being Executrix to Yr. dear Mothers will had a right to open Her Letters I could never suspect Yr ever making any bad use of the Contents of the one