DEAR READERS:

Thank you all for your support and comments! I am enjoying writing my first FF.I joined FF when it was kindly pointed out to me that I needed a hobby. I have found it to be a wonderful community of encouraging folks who are supporting me in something I've always wanted to try. Thank you for bearing with me through typos etc. I am trying to hardest to present a polished story but am also writing for fun and as a hobby. Some of you have messaged me about glaring issues and I appreciate it.

I used to think that to do something I needed to do it perfectly from the start. Fiction writing is teaching me that it's fun to just go through the process and nothing is perfect. Your comments have contributed to this feeling greatly, so I thank you! I hope to have this story complete before the middle of May when I'm having eye surgery. So look out over the next 6 weeks for the second half of the story.. I'm slowly but surely getting there... and THANK YOU for READING!

- Sharon2007

P.S. It's a short one today;)

To My Nephew Lord Matlock, Rosings Park

Having not heard from you or your cousin Darcy I can only assume that you have chosen to ignore my warnings and continue under the spell of your inferior wives. I say wives because by the time you receive this letter the abominable event will have taken place, and there will forever be two Miss Bennets in the family bible.

This is the last time I will try and contact you. I would not have extended myself even this far except for the possibility that my last letter was misplaced by the post, in which case it would be a disservice to my dear siblings; your father the old Earl and your aunt Lady Anne, for me to not give you one last chance to redeem the family name.

So my dear nephew, it is up to you. It is too late for Mr. Darcy, as I understand Mrs. Darcy is thought to be carrying a son. You on the other hand could still turn from this disastrous and imprudent pairing with no harm on your side. As you know my daughter Anne will have the DeBourgh inheritance - but you will be set up as second in line if you listen to me now and walk away.

Your cousin still takes to her bed, and is indeed very, very ill. I would not last a week past her.

Lady Catherine De Bourgh