such excellent effects I hope it was only a little qualm and does not require any very violent remedies—As to the Shirts I left some linen at Quincy which may be made for you and if you will no more give way to these starts of impatience which are quite unsuitable to the dignity of philosophy I will with pleasure allow you to have them made...
Present my Compliments to Miss Welsh and tell her I think she had better take some of the shortest of John’s Shirts for your use as he has a piece of Linen laying by at his Grandmama’s I am sorry to learn that he is still inclined to be a little rebellious I do not approve of his taking his night Shirts into wear in the day—Let me caution you...