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Blenheim, October 31st

Sunday Morning

Darling Nina,

I wrote you a long let

ter a few days ago and have just re

turned from [Emanuel?] so I can't

write you a long letter, but the Dr.

is going to Richmond tomorrow, so

I will write a few lines to send with

the things I send you. I am indeed

disturbed darling that you are hav

ing such a hard time with B.

It is too outrageous for anything, but

that is exactly the way Maria T. treat

ed me for 15 months. As to her not

improving, I would not trouble my

self about that at all. You do your duty

when you give her the opportunity, if

she don't choose to profit by it, that is

her [lookout?], and I should plainly [tell?]

her. When I corrected her and she did

not do what was right, "My [?] B

I tell you what is right, if you are so

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conceited as to think that you know better

you can take your own course, it

don't make a straw's difference to

me whether you improve or not."

I think I would have managed M

better in that way, for the more anx

ious she thinks you are about it, the

more she will set herself against

you, and there is no hope of improving

such a girl as that, all you can do is

to give her the opportunity. As to in your

room, you will be obliged to bear a great

deal that is disagreeable, I know, but

try and not let her see that you mind

it