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and that a sense of the unhappiness She caused in her Familly
had forced her to give up all hopes. She said She had burned
my Letters, and required me to send her her's — now as she
had forwarned me that such a demand might be made in
consequence of a moment of weakness on her part, and had
beg'd me never to give them up, I accordingly, imagining
her Letter to be written under the influence of her Parents,
refused to give up her Letters. She replied, intreating me
again to give them up, but I refused the second time.
more peremptorily than the first; I however, afterwards
understood that it was of her own free will that she demanded
her Letters, and that She was enraged against me for not
delivering them up. I forgot to tell you that in refusing
to give up her Letters to the Man whom She sent for them
I promised to give them into her own hands whenever
she would permit me; That, however, her friends would
not consent to. Now tho' I know, She wishes to have
them, and I have no wish to keep them, nor would
take any advantage of the impropriety of her burning
mine at a time She was asking for hers, yet I have
not chose to give them into any other hands than her
own as yet, partly because I said I would not, and
do not like to retract without some particular —
reason, and partly because I think that while she
as well as her Parents are enraged against me,
any thing I do will be attributed to any other than
the real motive.

What is unlucky in this affair is the Situation in
which my Friend Pleshejeff stands at present. She, to
justify herself as far as possible for her attachment to
me has told her Parents the active Part which Ples.
has taken in the business, and among other things of his
having told her that the Empress would rather approve
than otherwise, of her running away with me. This at

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Date_1	1784-01-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
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