"I have the business of 3 plantations to transact which requires much writing and more business and fatigue of other sorts than you can imagine, but lest you should imagine it too burthensome to a girl at my early time of life give me leave to assure you I think myself happy."

To my good friend Mrs. Boddicott in England | may 1740

"I am sorry we lost this season. We can do nothing towards it now but make the works ready for next year."

to her father | june 1741

"What ever contributes to health and pleasure of mind must also contribute to good looks."

letter to Mary Bartlett | january 1742

"The longer time we are awake, the longer we live . . . thus then I have the advantage of the sleepers in point of long life."

to Mary Bartlett | january 1742

"I beg leave here to acknowledge particularly my obligation to you for . . . my Education, which I esteem a more valueable fortune than any you could now have given me."

to her father, Governor Lucas | may 1744

"A variety of imployment gives my thoughts a relief from melloncholy subjects, tho' 'tis but a temporary one."

to Mr. Morley, family friend | march 1760

"I love a Garden and a book; and they are all my amusement except I include one of the greatest Businesses of my life (my attention to my dear little girl) under that article."

to Mr. Keate, a family friend in England | february 1762

"Nor can I take a penny from his young helpless family. Independence is all I wish, and a little will make us that."

to her son Thomas | may 1779

"I was very early fond of the vegetable world."

to her son, an account of "the introducing and culture of indigo in this country" | september 1785