You gave me leave to write to you and I take the first opportunity of profiting by your indulgence, I do assure you we all left your Ship with a heavy heart but the taking leave was a scene we wish’d to save you as well as ourselves. God grant you may have a good Voyage, it is our constant toast every day at dinner. I was quite provoked with myself when I got to Southampton that I had not thought of something to leave with you that might have been useful during the Voyage to remind you of me. You produced a house-wife possibly you had no pin-cushion, how happy it woud have made me to have given you one! Did you ever taste the Ginger Cake and think it had belongd to your Fellow Traveller? in short I want some excuse for asking whether you ever think about me.

We are for ever talking of our good Friend, something is perpetually occuring to remind us of the time we spent with you. We never walk in the Garden without seeing Dr. Franklin’s Room and thinking of the Work that was begun in it; I have sincerely wish’d you a good Voyage, but since the completion of that work depends on its length I cannot wish it may be Short. I had a letter from Emily the night after I got home to enquire whether your stay at Southampton would allow time for her coming to see you. Bessy regretted much that she lost that happiness. I have written poor dear Georgiana a long account of You for I know every circumstance will be interesting to her, indeed my dear Sir from my Father and Mother down to their youngest Child we all respect and Love you. I have not sent the Verses because I intend to make them an excuse for troubling you with another letter. Believe me my dear Good Friend Most Affectionately Yours