A consciousness of having no one thing to entertain you with, and nothing else, keeps me from writing to you very frequently, not but many extraordinary things daily happen here to divert and amaize but as you are not acquainted with the history of the actors, it would be all lost in the relating, you allways hear too from your GrandFather of the welfare of the Family, and that I feel myself much obliged to you for your attention to my Son who I beg you will introduce to the Chavilier De. La Lucerne, he took great notice of Willy and can tell Ben a good deal about his Brother.

Do let me know very particularly about your Father, wether he has wrote to you were he is, and how he does, and if you have seen him, all the war I heard from him, since the Peace not once, I wrote him a long letter by Capt. All who promised me to see him, and bring me an Answer, most People look on All to be lost but I cannot yet give him up, Mr. Jay I hear is arrived I cannot think the reason we had not a line from one of you by him. (this report was false)

My Children you are perfectly acquainted with they are delighted with being in the Country, Louis is more active and mischevious than any thing I ever met with. he fears no danger, I believe you never saw so little a fellow mount a ladder and get into a Cherry tree, nor is their one fence too high or too rough for him on the place, he has besides a good deal of wit, I find it will require the strictest attention to manage him, I wish you could hear some of his answers and excesses, the youngest is remarkable only for good humor and beauty, you have never seen such a pair of eyes, Betsy and Deby are sweet little Girls I have wished a thousand times you could have seen them. Their is many of your Friends that often make inquiries after you, and speak of you with great affection, but none wishes more earnestly to see you than Your Afectionate Aunt