Isend you, my dear friend, a letter from Adelaide. You will certainly be satisfied with the writing, but perhaps will be astonished to find in it many faults in regard to the spelling. But when I give her leave to write to you once a month, I told her I should neither correct her stile, nor the spelling. She has just brought me her letter; I have pointed out the faults to her, and she wanted to write another, which I would not allow; so that she saw this sent away with great concern, and waits with impatience till ‘the twelfth of April,’ in the hope of doing better, and of sending you a more complete letter. This is the kind of emulation I wish to inspire her with. Apropos, of writing; I will now tell you the manner in which Adelaide has been taught to write, and which I advise you to follow for Constantia. I have observed, the most fatiguing of all lessons to children, is that of writing; for, indeed, nothing can be more tiresome, than filling a large page by repeating one or two phrases, which contain only two lines. I therefore had extracts taken from some instructing and amusing books, and written by an excellent master; which I made nine or ten volumes of, to serve as copies for my children. Some of them are written large for their first lessons; others in a small hand, for the ages of twelve or thirteen, &c. They are all written on single sheets of paper; and when one volume is finished, they begin another. By this method Adelaide finds her lessons agreeable. She is instructed while she writes; and as she finds in the same space a greater number and variety of words, than other children who only copy a single line, she will certainly learn to spell much sooner.