Your last letter was dated the 28th of February, only that I console myself with the belief that your letters are detained (for it is a month since a northern mail has arrived at Donaldsonville) I would be truly unhappy as your general habits of attention secure you from a suspicion of negligence...

As I will not be able at any rate to leave this in this in less than two weeks if then, because I have promised Mrs Thompson to pay her a visit at Mt Holly in Jersey, which however will be accomplished in a few days (but I cannot get ready before that time) I want to know what the travelling...

We are arriv’d here fatigue’d to death as usual my dear Virginia, after the most tedious journey that ever was made, I am sure I almost died on the road from impatience. we got to Warren in the height of the rain that fell the day we left you, & were detain’d there all night, in consequence...

I received this morning your letter with your Mamas—I did not mean that you should neglect your French—I agree perfectly with you in your idea of its importance—The history I proposed to you to read was only designed as a part of what I calculated on your doing as a matter of course—You must try...

I was very much disappointed at not receiving a letter from you by Brother Charles as I expected you would write. your little maid was born the 2nd of november I wish you would write us word what you want her named & I will try & persuade Betsey to let us name it I have read the little...

Accept a thousand thanks for your kind favours which gave me sincere pleasure, for although Mary has ceased to write to me I must always be interested about her, and rejoice, or grieve, as she is happy or otherwise—What are her intentions as to residence? Will she remain on the Plantation or does...

The day I sent my last letter to the office my dearest Aunt Uncle Isaac arrived accompanied by Mrs Course Cousin Charles and Elizabeth their second Daughter, they remained with us three weeks Uncle’s health was considerable improved when he departed but am sorry to say not restored, Doct Watkins...

I have waited with impatience for nearly two a month expecting to hear from some one of the family (yourself excepted) respecting my final arrangement for the winter; The house is very much crowded at present, but we experience no inconvenience from it, having a room in another, house I never see...

$900 On or before the first day of October eighteen hundred and nineteen I promise to pay Edmund Bacon his heirs executors administrator or assigns the sum of—nine—hundred dollars with legal interest from the first twelfth day of october 1818. to the true payment of which I bind myself my...

Since I heard your conversation with Mead, I have regularly, every night, made a resolution to speak to you on the subject the next day; but when that arrived, I never could summon up courage enough to do so.—You expressed some apprehensions, that I should ...