"Does the soul (one would be almost tempted to ask) <i>contract</i> and <i>shrivel up</i> with old age, like the body?"
Letter (November 10, 1750)
Hester Mulso Chapone, <u>The Works of Mrs. Chapone: Now First Collected</u>, Vol. iv, Life and Correspondence (London: John Murray, 1807). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=WeU0AAAAMAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;
