THE AMERICAN POLITE LETTER WRITER. 39 dear helpmate. I know how rich you are, as also how respectable and honourable you are, and how low I feel in soliciting your hand, but this one thing encourages me to do it, and that is-the pure and warm attachment of the heart, which when once it prevails over young maidens, it never quits them until the object of their desires are accomplished; but mind, I do not mean any object that includes any tiling more than a pure and modest desire to be linked to him in marriage who is the object of these few lines. 1 conclude by wishing you a long life, &c. LETTER XXXVI. A Letter from a Wagoner to Ids Sweetheart. Baltimore, July 30th, 1828. Dear Sophia— I write you these few lines, hoping to find you in as good health as I am at present.— Give my best respects to all of your connections. I have been thinking of you at different times as I ride along the lonesome roul^ where I contemplated your beautiful face,
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