April 20th. 1763 Diana Love sweetens Life, and Life sometimes destroys Love. Beauty is desirable and Deformity detestible; Therefore Beauty is not Deformity nor Deformity, Beauty. Hope springs eternal in…
Weymouth March 16 1763 Dear Cousin 1 Tis no small pleasure to me, to hear of the great proficioncy you have made in the French tongue, A Tongue Sweet, and…
Braintree Feby. 14th. 1763 Dear Madam Accidents are often more Friendly to us, than our own Prudence.–I intended to have been at Weymouth Yesterday, but a storm prevented.–Cruel, Yet perhaps…
[ Braintree? 1762–1763 ] 1 Dr. Miss Jemima I have taken the best Advice, on the subject of your Billet, and I find you cannot compell me to pay unless…
Octr. 4th. 1762 Miss Adorable By the same Token that the Bearer hereof 1 satt up with you last night I hereby order you to give him, as many Kisses,…
Germantown Decr. 30th. 1761 Dear Miss Polly 1 I was at Boston yesterday and saw your Brother who was well. I have but a moments notice of an oportunity of…
How it is with you I know not, but if I am rightly informed, I am yet alive and not dead. And to prove it to you, I will tell…
Mon Ami My letters, for the future will come to you, not from a School House but from the Cell of an Hermit. I am removed from Worcester to Braintree…
Sir As your Excellency reads English perfectly well, my first Request is that you would not communicate this Letter, even to a Translator. I have hitherto avoided, in my single…
1777 July 23. I cast up the foregoing Account, and found it amounted to £87:15s:8d. At the same Time I counted over all the Money which I had left of…