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LETTER XI.
February 15th, 1793.
My dear Madam,
The Good Intent, [captained by] Captain Buckle, affords me an opportunity of sending
you the foregoing journal, which I fear you will think very insipid, but every day produces such a sameness that really there
is not subject for high seasoning even a common epistle, and you will allow journalizing still more difficult; however, to
avoid tautological writing as much as possible, I skipped over several days at a time, which of course you will have observed,
but after all, it is so dry that I am almost ashamed to send it [to] you, and am determined in future to have recourse to
my old epistolary mode.
My dinner on the 21st of January will somewhat puzzle you at first, and least you may not at once hit upon what occasioned
it, I must not keep you in suspence, but acquaint you that I have changed the name of Falconbridge for one a little shorter,
under which I beg to subscribe myself,
Your's sincerely, &c. &c.
Less than a month after Alexander Falconbridge’s death Anna Maria has married Isaac DuBois. The splendid dinner party
is to celebrate the occasion. They were married on January 7, but Anne Maria does not disclose the fact in her letters until
February 15. Not until June will she further defend her action in marrying rather than mourning.
Rerturn to Introduction for Anna Maris's diary
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