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Eimeo 16th Sept. 1822.

My Very Dear Friend!
While I now take my pen to let
you hear from me and cast my eyes over
yours of the 21st. of March written on board
The Queen Charlotte, a variety of reflections
force themselves upon me and as impress
& affect my mind that I have to desist, and
drop my pen to give vent to my feelings
and wipe my eyes. The intelligence of
your safe arrival in the Colony and restoration
to your Dear & honoured Mother and the
Bosom of your family, excited in my breast
no small degree of pleasure and of thankful
-ness to the Disposer of all events; and the
reception of your letter above mentioned,
afforded me peculiar justification altho' so
very short as breathing the true spirit of
Friendship & affection etc. I can in
a good measure, I presume, conceive of and
enter into you dear Mothers feelings on
your being restored to her, from what I felt