Eliza M. Barclay to Martha Jefferson (Randolph)
| at St g Germains the 2d february 1787 |
The pleasure your agreable letter afforded me My dear girl would easily Make me forget forgive and even forget the uneasiness your silence gives me tho’ I cannot allow of the Justness of your Excuses for not writing as one sees by your letters that your time is far from being Employed in trifles.
I was happy the time I passed in the Convent and was treated with so much Kindness and attention by the ladies not to regret in some degrée the leaving it tho you will easily believe I prefer being at home with Mama where I am at present I am however occupied as Much as ever My Masters attending me at home My sisters Eye is not yet able to apply to h[er lear]ning as since the ofthalmy which she had some time on her Eye got better à film has appeard which seems to increase every day and I fear is of à much more dangerious nature than the first disorder