No. 33.
[STEELE.
By Mrs. JENNY DISTAFF, half-sister to Mr. BICKERSTAFF.
From Thursday, June 23, to Saturday, June 25, 1709.
From my own Apartment, June 23.
My brother has made an excursion into the country, and the work against Saturday lies upon me. I am very glad I have got pen and ink in my hand; for I have for some time longed for his absence, to give a right idea of things, which I thought he put in a very odd light, and some of them to the disadvantage of my own sex. It is much to be lamented, that it is necessary to make discourses, and publish treatises, to keep the horrid creatures, the men, within the rules of common decency. Turning over the papers of memorials or hints for the ensuing discourses, I find a letter subscribed by Mr. Truman.
"SIR,