Baquaqua : Afro-Diasporic Text Corpus

Ignatius Sancho Sept. 17, 1768

I am uneasy about your health —I
do not like your silence — let some
good body or other give me a line, just
to say how you are — I will, if I can, see
you on Sunday ;—it is a folly to like
people and call them friends, except they
are blest with health and riches. —A very
miserable undone poor wretch, who has
no portion in this world’s goods, but
honesty and good-nature in the article of
covering, has applied to me.—I do
know something of her—no greater
crime than poverty and nakedness. —
Now, my dear M——, I know you have
a persuasive eloquence among the women
—try your oratorical powers. —You have
many women — and I am sure there must
be a great deal of charity amongst them
—Mind, we ask no money —only rags
—mere literal rags—patience is a ragged
virtue—therefore strip the girls, dear
M——, strip them of what they can spare
—a few superfluous worn-out garments—.
but leave them pity—benevolence— the
charities— goodness of heart —love —and
the blessings of yours truly with affec-
tion, or something very like it,

I. SANCHO

Sancho, Ignatius (1782) Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. to which are prefixed, Memoirs of His Life. London : J. Nichols. pp.13-14

Copy of original can be found at at:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=bc.ark%3A%2F13960%2Fs2k7fnrzrwp&seq=81
Genre: Epistolary
Language : English