Eliza Gould [at Kempston] to Eliza Gurney in London, composed after her break with Feltham, c. spring 1799.

… case the length of any suspense is extended this letter at all events I trust will produce immediate disclosure.  It will not I hope be deemed superfluous to say the many painful hours spent in consequence of this affair & the present agitated state I am in. The path of my unfeigned assertions has gained belief & received the most flattering return. Full scope has therefore been given to my affections in the pleasing hope of speedy attainment of their object—the Idea therefore only that a postponement is now thought necessary distresses my feelings to a degree your sensibility will conceive but I cannot describe.

         Fearing lest any obstacles might have arisen in regard to my residence here so far distant from your friends—or any other circumstance—permit me to say I shall feel happy in removing. I can truly inform my dear Eliza that I have a competency sufficient to subsist comfortably on independent of the world & nothing but mutual affection is necessary to ensure happiness ...

Text: Timothy Whelan, ed., Politics, Religion, and Romance: The Letters of Benjamin Flower and Eliza Gould, 1794-1808 (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 2008), pp. 53-54 (a far more annotated text than that which appears on this site).