They are prim and measured epistles, and they relate much more to spiritual matters than to temporal business.

Mrs.Rebecca seems to have been so much concerned for the health of her soul that she had very little leisure to think of anything so insignificant as the bodies of other people.

The letters are filled with discourses upon her own state of mind; and the tone of them reveals not a little of that pride whose character it is to simulate humility.

Mrs.Rebecca is always casting ashes on her head; but she takes care to let her friend and pastor know what a saintly head it is notwithstanding.
I have laid aside three of the most secular letters, which I selected after wading through unnumbered pages of bewailings in the strain of a Wesleyan Madame Guyon.

These throw some little light upon the character of Matthew Haygarth, but do not afford much information of a tangible kind.