Well knowing Your engagements, I have hitherto declined encroaching upon Your important time, but as I shortly embark with my family for Philadelphia, I could not refrain returning You my very sincere and affectionate thanks, for your repeated friendly and affectionate attention to each of my Sons when on the continent, and (if possible) has added to that respect affection, and I may say reverence I have retained for You, ever since I have had the pleasure of Your acquaintance, and I rest with pleasing expectation of renewing and perpetuating an intercourse with You in America, which I shall esteem as the most valuable of the many advantages I expect to derive in that new World, being with perfect regard, My dear Sir, Your affectionate and obliged humble Servant