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LETTERS TO FANNY BRAWNE

No. I.

SHANKLIN, ISLE OF WIGHT, THURSDAY.

[Postmark, Newport, 3 July, 1819.]

MY DEAREST LADY:

I am glad I had not an opportunity of sending off a letter which I wrote for you on Tuesday night -'twas too much like one out of Rousseau's "Heloise." I am more reasonable this morning. The morning is the only proper time for me to write to a beautiful girl whom I love so much for at night, when the lonely day has closed, and the lonely, silent, unmusical chamber is waiting to receive me as into a sepulchre, then believe me my passion gets entirely the sway, then I would not have you see those rhapsodies which I once thought it impossible I should ever give way to, and which I have often laughed at in another, for fear you should [think me] either too unhappy or perhaps

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