Very many thanks for your kindness in answering my letter[1] so soon. I shall be very grateful, if you will make inquiries through some 3rd person if Matilde van Marcke is well or ill. Last year she was invited to come here several times, but each time, made some excuse, & did not come at all. This year my Aunt invited herp2for August & she accepted but fixed no date. I was obliged to write & put her off, as my Aunt fell down and broke her arm. We then invited her to come the beginning of September, she said, she could not come until after the 12th, we then invited her for the 16th. To this, she wrote an answer on the 13th Sept, that she could not come until after the 28 Sept, & would write the following day to my Aunt. She never wrote at all, & we havep3had no intelligence of her since the 13 Sept. This is why I should be grateful to you to find out, without mentioning me, how she is & where she is. We feared some harm might have come to her, as she & her husband are so rarely d’accord. That she has given up going to see you, I did know, she is very foolish as except in advising her to marry Mr van Marcke, you have always been a true friend to her. My cousin is, as you best know, one of those, who require ap4good & firm hand to guide them, if they are to keep straight, and I was always pleased to hear when she consulted you, in anything. She rarely writes to me now, sometimes not for months, but she has always written to my Aunt every few weeks. My Aunt expresses her kind regards & grateful thanks to you, and I shall be grateful to you for remembering me in your Prayers to our common Father before whose Throne all we, who believe on[2] His dear Son will one day meet & have fellowship together.