. Colonial children . sins, but I hope by the good spirit of God toavoid them more and more. My teacher sent down a letter to you some timeago by Deverux. I did not know about it. Now Ihave heard that he forgot to deliver it. I wish youto send word whether you got it, for that Deverux,as I am told, takes in hand letters to deliver andthen opens them and does not send them. I suppose you have heard our college news aboutthe change in the rules of the library. The duke isabout to come to the college. If you have not heardall this, Tom Ark. can tell you when he sees you. I remember my duty to you
. Colonial children . sins, but I hope by the good spirit of God toavoid them more and more. My teacher sent down a letter to you some timeago by Deverux. I did not know about it. Now Ihave heard that he forgot to deliver it. I wish youto send word whether you got it, for that Deverux,as I am told, takes in hand letters to deliver andthen opens them and does not send them. I suppose you have heard our college news aboutthe change in the rules of the library. The duke isabout to come to the college. If you have not heardall this, Tom Ark. can tell you when he sees you. I remember my duty to yourself and my mother, andI send love to the rest of my friends. I wish alwaysto have your prayers and blessings. In haste, I am,Your dutiful and obedient son, F. Winthrop. I wish you to send me the shoes of which I wroteyou. I have need of some clothes, for these areworn out. I ask you to send me, sometime when itseems best, some stuff to make me clothes. Or doas you think right about this. no. 73] A Learned W^oman 205. 73. A Puritans Objection toWomens Education By General John Winthrop (1645) Mr. Hopkins, the governor of Hartford upon Con-necticut, came to Boston and brought his wife withhim (a godly young woman, and of special parts),who was fallen into a sad infirmity, the loss of herunderstanding and reason, which had been growingupon her divers years, byoccasion of her giving herselfwholly to reading and writ-ing ; and she had writtenmany books. Her husbandbeing very loving and tenderof her, was loath to grieveher; but he saw his errorwhen it was too late. Forif she had attended to herhousehold affairs, and suchthings as belong to women,and had not gone out of herway to meddle in such thingsas are proper for men, whoseminds are stronger &c. shehad kept her wits and mighthave improved them usefullyand honorably in the placeGod had set her. He broughther to Boston and left her with her brother, one , a merchant, to try what means might be hadfor her. But no help could
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