LETTER CXLIV. To Mrs. STEELE. DEAR PRUE, Aug. 24, 1710, Bull-head, Clare-market. I BEG of you to meet your brother Whig Martyn and myself here. Afk for me. Yours faithfully, RICH. STEELE. I LETTER CXLV. To Mrs. STEELE. Aug. 29, 1710.. AM doing my business, and cannot come home to dinner, but ftay to come home more chearfully. Yours, RICH. STEELE. LETTER CXLVI. To Mrs. STEELE. MY DEAR PRUE, Vere-street, Aug. 30, 1710. F you can be fo good as to forgive all that I is paffed, you shall [not] hereafter know any fuffering from indifcretion or negligence. I have taken care of the matter mentioned in the letter you opened yesterday. Pray let me know how Lugger does. I am waiting here for a third perfon, to go and receive money. Martyn fent * Richard Martyn, efq. one of Steele's colleagues, was a Commiffioner of the Stamp-office. an an excufe yesterday that he was fick, and promises to come at ten to-day; but I shall not wait or depend on that, though I dare fay he would do all he could. Your affectionate and tender husband, RICH. STEELE. Pray fend linen, for I am to meet the parties before nine. I LETTER CXLVII. To Mrs. STEELE. MY DEAR, Aug. 31, 1710. HAVE fent a meffage by Cave a little way off; as foon as he returns I will come home. I have almost done one paper*. Yours ever, RICH. STEELE, LETTER CXLVIII. To Mrs. STEELE. DEAR PRUE, A Oct. 2, 1710. S foon as you have dined, if you please, come to Nutt's, where I am gone for hafte fake to dispatch my paper; and I will go from thence with you to fee Dick at Lambeth. Yours ever, RICH. STEELe. *See TATLER, No 219, Sept. 2, 1710, vol. VI. + See TATLER, No 232, vol. VI. Their first-born child, named Richard, who died in his in fancy. See Letter CLVII. G4 LETTER I LETTER CXLIX. To Mrs. STEELE. DEAR PRUE, DESIRE you to go to dinner. Be chearful and beautiful, and I will come to you to your mother's between fix and feven this evening. Faithfully yours, I RICH. STEELE. LETTER CL. To Mrs. STEELE. DEAR PRUE, June 2, 1711. CANNOT come home to dinner. I dine with Tonson, at an ordinary near the Temple, with Mr. Addison and another gentleman. A gentleman met me to-day, and acquainted me that John had been with him to be hired, fo that you will be rid of him, and I will pay him when I come home. I would have you go out and divert yourfelf, and believe I love you better than life. RICH. STEELE. Yours, I write from Mr. Edward Lawrence's, whose fifter would be glad of your company. LETTER CLI. To Mrs. STEELE. DEAR PRUE, I June 14, 1711. AM obliged to go with Mr. Glanville to till * This was Sir Harry Furnese, the rich Alderman; of whom Swift fays, in "The Examiner," No 40, “I know a citizen, "who till nine at night. Thank God, all will now be done. Your most obedient husband, RICH. STEELE. I will come to Berry-street at nine. I LETTER CLII. To Mrs. STEELE. DEAR PRUE, June 21, 1711. AM going about your commands, and will fend word, or come home to dinner. Yours RICH. STEELE. ever, LETTER CLIII To Mrs. STEELE, laft Door Left-hand, Bromley-street*; or Berry-ftreet †. PR June 22, 1711. RAY, on the receipt of this, go to Nine, Elms, and I will follow you within an hour. Yours, RICH. STEEle. "who adds or alters a letter in his name with every plumb he "acquires; he now wants only the change of a vowel to be al"lied to a fovereign prince in Italy; and that, perhaps, he may ❝contrive to be done by a flip of the graver on his tomb-stone.” He died Nov. 30, 1712. *The lodgings of her mother, Mrs. Scurlock. ✦ Their own lodgings. 3 LETTER LETTER CLIV. To Mrs. STEELE. DEAR PRUE, Jan. 21, 1711-12. From Mr. Afhurft's *. I STAY dinner here, but shall come home as foon as I have dined. In the mean time I defire you would order Michael to carry the inclosed to Mr. Gibbs's u lodgings, and bid him afterwards be in the way to wait for me. Your obliged husband, RICH. STEELE. LETTER CLV. To Mrs. STEELE. DEAR PRUE, GTM Jan. 22, 1711-12. for IVE me till ten o'clock to-morrow without dunning for your payments; Diggle infifts upon paying butcher Gibbs, and fettling two or three things, before my domeftic comes. Yours, RICH. STEELE. LETTER CLVI. To Mrs. STEELE. DEAR PRUE, June 28, 1712. CANNOT come home till the evening. All is fafe and well. My difappointment has * Probably at Highgate. See Letter CLXVIII. p. 95. A butcher. See next Letter. produced |