To Mrs. Downes Date: LONDON, December 1, 1781. MY DEAR SISTER, Never be afraid that I should think your letters troublesome; I am never so busy as to forget my friends. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher made an excellent beginning, and I trust they will increase with all the increase of God. Now let all of you that remain in the neighborhood arise up and supply her lack of service. Be instant in season, out of season, that all may know you have caught her mantle! See letters of Nov. 24 and Dec. 9. But pray do not suffer my poor Miss Ritchie to work herself to death. Let her do all she can, and not more than she can. I am Your affectionate brother.