You must by no means, my dearest Coz, pursue the plan that has suggested itself to you on the supposed loss of your letter.  In the first place I choose that my Sundays, like the Sundays of other people, shall be distinguished by something that shall make me look forward to them with agreeable expectation, and for that reason desire that they may always bring me a letter from you.  In the next place, if I know when to expect a letter, I know likewise when to inquire after a letter, if it happens not to come; a circumstance of some importance, considering how excessively careless they are at the Swan, where letters are sometimes overlooked, and do not arrive at their destination, if no inquiry be made, till some days have passed since their arrival at Olney.  It has happened frequently to me to receive a letter long after all the rest have been delivered, and the Padre assured me that Mr. Throckmorton has sent notes three several times to Mrs. Marriot, complaining of this neglect.  For these reasons, my dear, thou must write still on Saturdays, and as often on other days as thou pleasest.

The screens came safe, and one of them is at this moment interposed between me and the fire, much to the comfort of my peepers.  The other of them being fitted up with a screw that was useless, I have consigned it to proper hands, that it may be made as serviceable as its brother.  They are very neat, and I account them a great acquisition.  Our carpenter assures me that the lameness of the chairs was not owing to any injury received in their journey, but that the maker never properly finished them.  They were not high when they came, and in order to reduce them to a level, we have lowered them an inch.  Thou knowest, child, that the short foot could not be lengthened, for which reason we shortened the long ones.  The box containing the plate and the brooms reached us yesterday, and nothing had suffered the least damage by the way.  Everything is smart, everything is elegant, and we admire them all.  The short candlesticks are short enough.  I am now writing with those upon the table; Mrs. U. is reading opposite, and they suit us both exactly.  With the money that you have in hand, you may purchase, my dear, at your most convenient time, a tea-urn; that which we have at present having never been handsome, and being now old and patched.  A parson once, as he walked across the parlour, pushed it down with his belly, and it never perfectly recovered itself.  We want likewise a tea-waiter, meaning, if you please, such a one as you may remember to have seen at the Hall, a wooden one.  To which you may add, from the same fund, three or four yards of yard-wide muslin, wherewithal to make neckcloths for my worship.  If after all these disbursements anything should be left at the bottom of the purse, we shall be obliged to you if you will expend it in the purchase of silk pocket-handkerchiefs.  There, my precious—­I think I have charged thee with commissions in plenty.