that Policy and We are at Variance) for Reward of this Father, of Millions
of Minds, which are to owe new Formation to the future Effect of his Influence!
    Upon the whole, as I never met with so pleasing, so honest, and so truly
deserving a Book, I shou'd never have done, if I explain'd All my Reasons for
admiring its Author. - If it is not a Secret, oblige me so far as to tell me his
Name: for since I feel him the Friend of my Soul, it would be a Kind of
Violation to retain him a Stranger. - I am not able to thank you enough, for
this highly acceptable Present. And, as for my Daughters, They have taken into
their Own Hands the Acknowledgment due from their Gratitude. I am,
Dear Sir,
                                                                      Your, etc.
Dec. 17, 1740.
 

              Abstract of a second Letter from the Same Gentleman

»- No Sentiments which I have here, or in my last, express'd, of the sweet
Pamela, being more than the bare Truth, which every Man must feel, who lends his
Ear to the inchanting Prattler, why does the Author's Modesty mislead his
Judgment, to suspect the Style wants Polishing? - No, Sir, there is an Ease, a
natural Air, a dignify'd Simplicity, and measured Fullness, in it, that,
resembling Life, outglows it! He has reconciled the Pleasing to the Proper. The
Thought is everywhere exactly cloath'd by the Expression: And becomes its Dress
as roundly, and as close, as Pamela her Country-habit. Remember, tho' she put it
on with humble Prospect, of descending to the Level of her Purpose, it adorn'd
her, with such unpresum'd Increase of Loveliness; sat with such neat Propriety
of Elegant Neglect about her, that it threw out All her Charms, with tenfold,
and resistless Influence. - And so, dear Sir, it will be always found. - When
modest Beauty seeks to hide itself by casting off the Pride of Ornament, it but
displays itself without a Covering: And so, becoming more distinguished, by its
Want of Drapery, grows stronger, from its purpos'd Weakness.«
 
There were formed by an anonymous Gentleman, the following Objections to some
Passages in the Work.
 
1. That the Style ought to be a little raised, at least so soon as Pamela knows
the Gentleman's Love is honourable, and when her Diffidence is changed to Ease:
And from about the fourth