Nothing can be kinder than your valuable present to my little girl, and I promise you that it will ensure, as you desire (though it was not necessary for this purpose), our most friendly remembrance of the giver. I will only add that the choice you have made could not have suited me better had it been of my own selection, and that some of the books you have sent for Eleanor are precisely those which I should have purchased for her had I been aware of their being in print. You are well aware, I am sure, that my husband values your friendship, and can never be so far from home as not to hope that he will live in your remembrance; and I beg you to believe that these sentiments are also very sincerely those of your obliged friend,
