I received in their time my dear Friend’s kind Letters of the last Year. An infinity of Affairs public and private, have so devoured my Time, that I am become necessarily a bad Correspondent. I can however never forget the many Instances of your Benevolence and Friendship while I resided in France. They have made indelible Impressions on my Mind of Gratitude and Affection.

I wish it had been in my Power to have render’d some Service to the Person you recommended to me. But he landed far from me in New England, and I have never yet seen him. I recommended him to the Governor of that State, (Massachusetts) and have not since heard of him.

My Health continues good, my old Malady excepted; and that, Thanks to God, does not grow worse; so that I am capable of going thro’ the Business of the Station to which I was chosen for the second Year in November last, by the unanimous Vote of my Country in the General Assembly of their Representatives. And I am happy in my Family, having an affectionate Daughter to take care of me, and a Number of her young Children to amuse me, with whose pretty Actions and Prattle, and promising Tempers and Qualities of Body and Mind, I am extreamly pleased and entertained.

Adieu, my dear and much respected Friend, and believe me ever, with sincere and great Esteem and Affection, Your most obedient humble Servant