Your letter of the 25th of December has given me new life You know not how much I have suffered from your long and total silence If you have not christened my dear little GGD by the name of Susanna Maria I shall be disappointed and greived I cannot bear Susan Maria Susan! It is worse than Sukey or Sue Susanna Maria sounds melodiously in my ear In this horrid blot see another proof of the...
I long to hear again from you, having received but one letter, concerning Mr Clarks your own or Susanna Maria’s Health. The Paine of Writing has become to me insupportable. It is with infinite difficulty that I can Say We are all well, that Miss Hall was married on the 26th, that I was at the Ceremony, and that Mr and Mrs Taggart Sat off, for Bergen on the next hour. Kiss the little Cherub for...
Your favour of the 20th: has given me great comfort you have learn’d the art of travelling by so many painful & hazardous experiments that I hope you never will become fond of it. Your indifference about your increasing your acquaintances in the City pleases me much the most rigorous economy and the strictest retirement becomes you & behoves you in your present situation and your future...
The practice of borrowing hands to write for me is so modern & my skill in dictating so little familliar that I forgot one half of what I intended to say. Would you believe it was possible for me to forget the Bible and the good Samaritan as I fear I did in my last letter to you. Your Bible shall be sure to you if you can find one in Georgetown or Washington to your satisfaction purchase it...
Our friend John lends me his hand to write you a line to acknowledge your favour of the 7th of this month. I sympathize with you in all your sorrows & congratulate with you in all your pleasures as I know you do in mine. Give my love to Mr. Clarke and wish him health and every blessing but you and I must submit him to a wise & benign providence. I can not wish you to exchange visits very often...
I have requested your Uncle to advance the money for your Bible on my account; Have you heard Mr. Clay speak in the house? I wish there might be as many spectators of the launching of the 74; as there were of the execution of the four pirates lately in Boston. Kiss little Susan and congratulate her on her recovery My love to Mr. Clark and all the family; I hope you will not fall in love with...
Tho the loss of Mr Clark has long been foreseen by your friends, and cannot have escaped your own anticipation, yet the melancholy event when it arrived may not have been much less afflictive to you or to them—than if it had happened more suddenly. collect yourself, place your Confidence where alone it can rest Securely. you r are not unacquainted with your Bible not with the writings of...
I have your letter of the 9th. is received—your packet from the Meditaranean is safe and shall remain so till your Orders—Mr Clarkes letters and your letters—which your Grand Mother left in a bundle together—are my property and shall remain so for the present—nobody has seen them, and shall see them for the present, but my self—I should not be very willing to transmit them to you by the...
I have received yours of June 30th. I hope you will come with your Uncle and Aunt and bring my little Susan Maria Clark—whose face I wish to see once more—rely my Child on the God of the Widow and the Fatherless and in him put your trust—I can give you no better advise—I hope to see your Uncle and your Aunt—and yourself and your Babe—but all is uncertain, an honest public Man is the Sport of...
The circle in which I move you know is very Contracted—and when I go round regularly like a hores in a mill I do pritty well—but if I indulge in the smallest eccentricity I am sure to suffer for it—I did however venture upon one which proved an exception—I went to Boston and dined with the Venerable Dr Vanderkemp at Mr Benjamin Guilds, in Company with a social Circle of Wise, Pious and...
I am grieved at our disappointment, and at yours—and much more for the illness of my dear little Susanah—I presume you have returned to Utica—And I hope still, you will return to Montezillo, as soon as the Child recovers, and you can find a Convenient opportunity— We go on here in the old way—just now interrupted in our Harrvest, by easterly winds—and frequent rains—I find myself two much more...
Your favor of October 7th. has given me pleasure—by the information of your safe arrival at Utica—But much regret the necessity you was under to return there—The hopeful prospect of Susans recovery is a great Satisfaction to me. I, for one long to see her—and her Mother—and I am not alone in that wish—I pray you to return to Montezillo—I am persuaded that her Native Air from the proximity to...
Give my thanks & a kiss to Miss Susan for reminding her mother to write to her Grandfather. Your lovely letter of May 21. reached me this morning. You are indeed a great traveller for your age and your letters will do more honor to your Country than the printed travels of Europeans, which come out in such numbers, wearing such sombre colours; Wherever you go every thing is smiling & pleasant....
If I could write I should sooner, have answered your letter of the 10th June. I am very much pleased with all your letters, they discover an attentive observation and proper reflection. you have great opportunities to see the fashionable World and I hope you will not be too much fascinated with its delights and Charmes, Moral and intellectual beauties are the only ones that never fade;...