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I wrote you by Capt. Cazneau a wedensday, but as the post will go to day I will not omit telling...
I have taken up my pen again to relieve the anxiety of a Heart too susceptable for its own...
It is now a little more than two months since you left me. I have many hopes that you had a...
The vessel by which I mean to send this is bound for Amsterdam and had very nigh given me the...
Last monday I left the Town of Boston, underwent the operation of a smoaking at the lines and...
Tis a long a very long time since I had an opportunity of conveying a single line to you. I have...
I received yours of July 7 for which I heartily thank you, it was the longest and best Letter I...
I Received two Letters from you this week one of the 13 and the other the 19 of March. I know not...
Join with me my dearest Friend in Gratitude to Heaven, that a life I know you value, has been...
I have omited writing by the last opportunity to Holland; because I had but small Faith in the...
Suppose you have had a formidable account of the alarm we had last Sunday morning. When I rose...
My habitation, how disconsolate it looks! My table I set down to it but cannot swallow my food. O...
I wrote you last Night till my Eyes were almost out by the post, but Mr. Eliot has taken pains to...
I this day Received by the Hands of our Worthy Friend a large packet, which has refreshed and...
Tis with a sad Heart I take my pen to write to you because I must be the bearer of what will...
It is now four weeks since Capt. Newman arrived in the Brig Gates and brought me your Letter of...
I this Evening Received Your two Letters of july 10 and 11, and last Evening the Post brought me...
Altho I wrote you a very long Letter no longer ago than this day week; which went under convoy of...
Your affectionate Letter by the Count de Noailles reachd me but yesterday, together with your...
I should write to you with a much more cherefull Heart if I knew where to find you, but as yet I...
1700 Barrells Pork 50 Do: Beef 700 Basketts Wheat 7 Hhds. Rum 6 Do: Bread 11 Tierces Claret 3...
Your Man and Horse arrived the 22 day of this Month. The Horse and Man look pretty low in flesh....
Since you left me I have passed thro great distress both of Body and mind; and whether greater is...
Last week arrived at Boston the Marquis de la Fayette to the universal joy of all who know the...
The post is very Regular and faithfully brings me all your Letters I believe. If I do not write...
I have to acknowledg the Recept of a very few lines dated the 12 of April. You make no mention of...
I know not any pleasure equal to that which arises from feeding the Hungry, cloathing the Naked...
I have delayed writing till the vessel is near ready to Sail, that my Letters may not lay 3 weeks...
I dare say before this Time you have interpreted the Northern Storm; if the presages chill’d your...
Tho I wrote you two Letters yesterday one by the Post and one by Mr. Smith, yet I will not omit...
The Day; perhaps the decisive Day is come on which the fate of America depends. My bursting Heart...
We have had very severe weather almost ever since you left us. About the middle of Febry. came a...
I received your obliging favour by Mrs. Morgan, with the papers, and the other articles you sent...
I set down with a heavy Heart to write to you. I have had no other since you left me. Woe follows...
I generally endeavour to write you once a week, if my Letters do not reach you, tis oweing to the...
It is difficult my dearest Friend at the instant in which the Heart finds itself dissapointed of...
Your favour of December 9 came to hand this Evening from Philadelphia, by the same post received...
I wrote you to day by Mr. Smith but as I suppose this will reach you sooner, I omitted mentioning...
I set down to write you a few lines by the post, because I would not omit one opportunity. I...
O that I could realize the agreable reverie of the last Night when my dear Friend presented...
I received yours of june 10, for which I thank you. I want you to be more perticuliar. Does every...
This day I am happy in the News of your safe arrival at Corruna by a vessel arrived at Newbury...
How great was my joy to see the well known Signature of my Friend after a Melancholy Solicitude...
I have to acknowlidge a feast of Letters from you since I wrote last, their dates from August 19...
26 yards of Dutch bed tick 2 Gray muffs and tippets 2 Bundles of english pins 2 sets of House...
Shall I tell my dearest that tears of joy filld my Eyes this morning at the sight of his well...
Have pitty upon me, have pitty upon me o! thou my beloved for the Hand of God presseth me soar....
The young folks desire Mamma to return thanks for their Letters which they will properly notice...
It was only an hour ago that I was informd of a vessel just ready to sail for Amsterdam; by...
If my Letters have been as successfull as I wish them, you must have heard many times from me...