I have received your kind Letter of May 24. (that which you mention of December 20, did not come to hand) and I wrote immediately to Mr. Childs, Printer at New York, who prints the Proceedings of Congress, that he should send them with the Newspapers to Mr. Sansom, by every Ship from that Port to London for you, promising him that some of the freshest Newspapers wish now and then a good Pamphlet should be sent him by every Ship from London to New York. This, as he prints a Newspaper will be more agreable to him than Payment in Money, and will make   Accompts unnecessary. Inclos’d I send you one Paper in which you will find a Piece of mine, containing some Acct of the State of things on this Side the Sea, which you may better rely upon, than upon most of our Newspapers, which are generally ill managed. Your Letter being seal’d with black Wax alarm’d me for your good Sister, but I was relieved on reading it by your most pleasing Information that she was in a very fair way of being restor’d to Life and comfortable Health. Be pleased to present my affectionate Respects to her. I still preserve among my Treasures her beautiful Drawing of the Return of Peace, which is much admired by our Connoisseurs. You and I have been happy enough to see what we long wish’d for, Peace return in Reality. Long may it continue; tho’ I see there are Spirits who wish to break it. You must have been pleas’d to observe our Articles, as you call’d them, adopted in our Treaty with Prussia; I view it as a Step of Improvement in the Law of Nations, sending to diminish the Calamities of War. I am ever, my dear Friend, Yours most affectionately,