[Mrs] A. Dewes to Samuel Richardson, 24 September 1750: '[My sister] and the Dean both have the highest regard for you and all your works. I rejoice at every addition you make to Clarissa [...] I can't help wishing you would publish Clarissa's meditiations, as they must be of great use and pleasure to all who read them; and the few friends to whom I have shewed those you favoured me with, are greatly pleased with them, especially Lady Anne Coventry, aunt to the Duke of Beaufort, a lady of singular piety and religion [...] a widow [...] She is also near fourscore, but enjoys health, and all the faculties of her mind in full vigour; employs them in goodness and ingenuity, and is very fond of Clarissa.'