To Jane Mecom Dear Sister London, Dec. 24. 1767 I have received yours of Oct. 23. and condole with you most affectionately in the Affliction you must have suffered by the Loss of so valuable and so amiable a Child. The longer we live we are expos’d to more of these Strokes of Providence: but…
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Condemn’d to Live Together and Tease One Another
To Margaret Stevenson Dear Madam Tuesday, Nov. 3 at Noon I breakfasted abroad this Morning and Nanny tells me that Mr. West call’d while I was out, and left word that you did not intend to come home till Sunday next, and that you expected me then, to come and fetch you; that Mr. West…
Travelling is One Way of Lengthening Life
To Mary Stevenson Dear Polly Paris, Sept. 14. 1767 I am always pleas’d with a Letter from you, and I flatter myself you may be sometimes pleas’d in receiving one from me, tho’ it should be of little Importance, such as this, which is to consist of a few occasional Remarks made here and in…
Dirt . . . Will Not Long Adhere to Polish’d Marble
To Joseph Galloway Dear Friend, London, Nov. 8: 1766 I received your kind Letter of Sept. the 22d. and from another Friend a Copy of that lying Essay in which I am represented as the Author of the Stamp Act, and you as concern’d in it. The Answer you mention is not yet come to…
A Brazen Wall Round England for its Eternal Security
To Cadwalader Evans LONDON, May 9, 1766. Dear Sir: — I received your kind letter of March 3, and thank you for the Intelligence and Hints it contained. I wonder at the Complaint you mentioned. I always considered writing to the Speaker as writing to the Committee. But if it is more to their Satisfaction…