Thursday Dec 8th.

A letter to me: and papa is to be with us tomorrow. My dear dear Papa! His coming is a thing feared & wished for! For what feelings must, & what circumstances may, attend it.

Phillips’s sacred literature which I had sent for to Eastnor, by Mr. Boyd’s request, arrived. Now, thinks I to myself if I cd. get to Malvern after dinner today, how pleasant it wd. be. By these means I could deliver the book immediately & have an interview with my dear friend before Papa’s arrival. Je propose. Ran down stairs to Bummy, & had the game in my own hands. She wd. go with me. Very kind of her. She & Arabel & I set off accordingly at past two;—& what with the rain, & what with the fog, which imitated rain most successfully in the distance, I cd. scarcely get Bummy on. Contrived it however .. I was set down at Ruby Cottage, & they, after offering to take Annie with them, drove on to Gt Malvern. Annie was at Miss Steers’s!—

Mr. Boyd certainly pleased to see me. I read what he wanted to hear out of Phillips—& something from the apologetick besides. A happy visit of nearly an hour & a half. He gave me Wesleys treatise on Predestination.[1] On our way home over the hills Bro & Sam frightened us with their gallopade in the dark. My hands & feet went to sleep meo more.

1. John Wesley, Predestination Calmly Considered (London, 1752).


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