From Lady DAVERS to Mrs. B.

My dear Pamela,

I have sent you a Present, the completest I could procure, of every thing that may suit your approaching happy Circumstance; as I hope it will be to you, and to us all. But it is with a Hope annex’d, That altho’ both Sexes are thought of in it, yet that you will not put us off with a Girl: No, Child, we will not permit, may we have our Wills, that you shall think of giving us a Girl, till you have presented us with half a dozen fine Boys. For our Line is gone so low, that we expect that human Security from you in your first Seven Years, or we shall be disappointed, I can tell you that.

And now, Pamela, I will give you their Names, if my Brother and you approve of them: Your First shall be BILLY; my Lord Davers, and the Earl of C------, shall be Godfathers; and it must be doubly God-mother’d too, or I am afraid the Countess and I shall fall out about it. Your Second, shall be DAVERS; besure remember that——Your Third, shall be CHARLEY; your Fourth, JEMMY; your Fifth, HARRY; your Sixth——DUDLEY, if you will——and your Girl, if you had not rather call it PAMELA, shall be BARBARA——The rest you must name as you please.——And so, my Dear, I wish all Seven happily over with you.

I am glad you got safe to Town; and long to hear of Miss Darnford 's Arrival, because I know you’ll be out of your Biass in your new Settlement till then. She is a fine Lady; and writes the most to my Taste of any one of her Sex, that I know, next to you. I wish she’d be so kind to correspond with me. But besure don't omit to give me the Sequel of her Sister and Murray's Affair, and what you think will please me in relation to her. You do well to save yourself the Trouble of describing the Town and the publick Places.We are no Strangers to them; and they are toomuch our Table-talk, when any Country Lady has, for the first time, been carried to Town, and return’d: Besides, what London affords, is nothing that deserves Mention, compar’d to what we have seen at Paris, and at Versailles, and other of the French Palaces.