Jane Attwater Blatch, Bratton, to Annajane Blatch, Bratton, [Thursday], 2 February 1804.

   My dear Anna remember your dear Fathers remark at Breakfast this morng—what is it constitutes our usefulness & comfort in Life? proper thoughts—proper words & proper actions—proper thoughts are ye buds proper words the flowers & proper actions ye fruit.

Text: Timothy Whelan, ed. Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vol. 8, p. 176 (fully annotated version); Attwater Papers, acc. 76, I.A.24, Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford. This note was placed inside JAB’s diary for February 1804.