I was writing to you My Dear Papa and apologizing for my silence which for some time past had been occasion’d by a slight indisposition when I recieved your last letter, how much does your kindness affect me my dear Papa, a kindness which I so little merit—ah surely, if the most grateful sense of it, if the tenderest love could in any degree entitle me to it, I should not be undeserving of it. suffer me dear Papa to tell you, how much above all others you are dear to me. that I feel more if possible every day how necessary your presence is to my happiness, & while blest with that & your affection I can never be otherwise, but the time is not far-distant I hope that will again reunite us all, with what pleasure do I look forward to it!, to see you once more settled at home & to be after so long an absence allways1 within a mile or two of you &, my dear sister; ah if you are indeed with us whose happiness can be compared with ours! Mr Eppes is now at the Hundred he has turn’d off his overseer & finds his presence there indispensable & I shall join him as soon as it is in my power which will be in a week, or two at the farthest & we shall remain there till he gets another, we shall then remove to Mont Blanco, & there I hope it will not be long before we shall see you, let me remind you of your promise my dear Papa if not too inconvenient for you to perform, & tell you what delight I feel at the hope of seeing you there Adieu my dear Papa. excuse this hasty scrawl for it is very late2 believe me your affectionate daughter