I mett Mr Small the other Day & he spoke of you in such a manner as gave my Sister & self vast pleasure assureing us you deserved every thing heard of you & tho: we have been Absent from you so long our love & Regard to you is not abated, as you are so Clever I cou’d wish you was serving your own King & Country in another way & then I might enjoy your Company in poor Old England—but no more of this—your friend Sandy is in a bad State of health I suppose from the accident to his Head he is in Barbadoes & what is more he dont take much notice of his Old Granny as he had not favor’d with a line I cant tell when they tell me he is as old in Constitution as a man of Seventy poor Soul I am Sorry for him Miss Marcy that was has had two Husbands & five or Six Children you used to be a particular favorite of hers dont you remember she used to with for your white neck what an alteration does a few years make with you young folks—

The other day as I was walking from Bromton mett with you Mammy Thackwell who has gott a pretty House there & letts Lodgings she express’d herself how rejoyced she was to hear of your being so fine a youth & longs to see you & hope if ever you comes on our side of the Water she shall have that pleasure she has loss’d her Husband he dyed about nine months ago she went to live in her own country but cou’d not like it well enough to settle there so return’d back to Knightsbridge I think she looks much the same as when you was with her.

Sam Johnson is a Lieutenant of a man of war & is in the West Indies his Sister is a Widow & lives at Barbadoes but his poor mother has been Burnt out of her Lodging in Beaufort Buildings & has not got a Second Shift to her back I know you have so much good nature to mention this to the Doct. & his Benevolent dissposion I am sure will help her as she is now in a deplorable Sittiation having lost her all & the Hurricanes in the West Indies as put it out of my Power to assist her or I shou’d gladly do it or I realy think her an Object of distress being a Stranger here she knows nothing of my writing or she wou’d her Duty—I myself am reduced to leave my lodgings, & am now at a Cheesmongers in Maiden Lane Covant Garden the mans Name is Aston where my Sister & self shall have great pleasure to hear from you & believe me to be my Dear yours affectionately