CLARISSA HARLOWE or the HISTORY OF A YOUNG LADY Nine Volumes Volume IX. CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX LETTER I. Belford to Lovelace.-- Her silent devotion. Strong symptoms of her approaching dissolution. Comforts her cousin and him. Wishes she had her parents' last blessing: but God, she says, would not let her depend for comfort on any but Himself. Repeats her request to the Colonel, that he will not seek to avenge her wrongs; and to Belford, that he will endeavour to heal all breaches. LETTER II. From the same.-- The Colonel writes to Mr. John Harlowe that they may now spare themselves the trouble of debating about a reconciliation. The lady takes from her bosom a miniature picture of Miss Howe, to be given to Mr. Hickman after her decease. Her affecting address to it, on parting with it. LETTER III. Belford to Mowbray.-- Desires him and Tourville to throw themselves in the way of Lovelace, in order to prevent him doing either mischief to himself or others, on the receipt of the fatal news which he shall probably send him in an hour or two. LETTER IV. Lovelace to Belford.-- A letter filled with rage, curses, and alternate despair and hope. LETTER V. Belford to Lovelace.-- With the fatal hint, that he may take a tour to Paris, or wherever else his destiny shall lead him. LETTER VI. Mowbray to Belford.-- With the particulars, in his libertine manner, of Lovelace's behaviour on his receiving the fatal breviate, and of the distracted way he is in. LETTER VII. Belford to Lovelace.-- Particulars of Clarissa's truly christian behaviour in her last hours. A short sketch of her character. LETTER VIII. From the same.-- The three next following letters brought by a servant in livery, directed to the departed lady, viz. LETTER IX. From Mrs. Norton.-- With the news of a general reconciliation upon her own conditions. LETTER X. From Miss Arabella.-- In which she assures her of all their returning love and favour. LETTER XI. From Mr. John Harlowe.-- Regretting that things have been carried so far; and desiring her to excuse his part in what had passed. LETTER XII. Belford to Lovelace.-- His executorial proceedings. Eleven posthumous letters of the lady. Copy of one of them written to himself. Tells Lovelace of one written to him, in pursuance of her promise in her allegorical letter. (See Letter XVIII. of Vol. VIII.) Other executorial proceedings. The Colonel's letter to James Harlowe, signifying Clarissa's request to be buried at the feet of her grandfather. LETTER XIII. From the same.-- Mrs. Norton arrives. Her surprise and grief to find her beloved young lady departed. The posthumous letters calculated to give comfort, and not to reproach. LETTER XIV. XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII. Copies of Clarissa's posthumous letters to her father, mother, brother, sister, and uncle. Substance of her letter to her aunt Hervey, concluding with advice to her cousin Dolly.