Leigh Hunt letter to Marianne Kent Hunt, April 8, 1807

              [London] Wednesday 4 o'clock. [April 8, 1807]  
Dearest Marian, 
I have been busier to day than I expected, and therefore I can only write you a hasty letter after my office hours, before I go home to dinner. Tomorrow morning I shall have perfect leisure, and then I will fill three sides for you. Do you think I forget you now, Marian?  
I am quite delighted to hear of your health's improvement and of your frequent exercise. Never mind the scorching weather: the sun will not take away your smiles or freeze your dear heart, and if your hands become brown, cannot they press mine as tenderly as before, and will they not do as much for me, when I am your husband?  
I did not wish you to toil over a letter, when you felt yourself unwell or uneasy, but I should like to see you get such a habit of writing neatly, that it will be a greater labour to you to write a careless than a neat one. When you are using your needle, should you not find it very toilsome to hold it awkwardly and work as the worst workers do? You will find it the same by and by with your pen; what was once a task, will become a habit and a pleasure.—  Your stops in the last letter were put, for the most part, very judiciously: I hope you will not forget them in your letters to others: Mrs. H[unter] will be agreeably surprised: she will praise your neatness, and I shall be so delighted. Recollect however, my dear girl, that it is customary to put a full stop only when there is no absolutely necessary connexion between the sentences; and also, that after every full stop a capital letter is invariably used by good writers:--there is no philosophical reason for such a custom, but it serves