To Alexander Small (unpublished)
Philada. Sept. 19. 1786
My dear old Friend,

It was with great Pleasure I receiv’d and read your Letter of June 6. as it inform’d me of your Welfare. Your kind Congratulations on my Return hither, &c. are very obliging. I find myself happy to be at home, with my Children and Grandchildren round me, and among a People that I love and that love and respect me; and doubly happy to see the general Happiness of my Country: For be assured that the Ideas given of our Situation in your Newspapers, of which I perceive you have

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