The hour’s that have passed over my head, since I left you have appeared as so many year’s to me—one while contemplating the happy hour’s we have enjoyed together in Paris, and then again of the gloomy prospect before me, (when travelling in the night.) If the only method I fall upon, is to think of what is to come, when I live to arrive to that Country, for which I have such an Attachment & in, which I so earnestly wish to be in—Butt, after all, Mde. turns up in one thought & mingles the whole so that in short my Head in such a manner contend’s both Day & night; & after this, you can easily form to yourself, disorder, in its true Signification—And upon arriving here, flattering myself of soon parting for America, We recievd advice of all the Ship’s sailing from L’Orient & still increases the Dissagreeableness of my Situation; but have determined to go there tomorrow & if I so find it, shall seek for some other port, & write you from what one I sail & when—so tell me every thing about Mde. Write soon & Believe me to be with Sincere Friendship & Regard Yr. most obedt [Sert]