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The following extract from a letter written while in
Tortola to a friend in Philadelphia will shew his feelings
after he was married about a year -- & may be thought
in some degree to contradict my previous opinions. --
"I am now set down with a desire to please you, that I
"may enjoy a satisfaction in this departed Scrawl the
"mode of doing it will be if I judge of effects upon virtuous hearts
"to give you an account of my Wife -- It will I am confident
"be doubly acceptable, for you were one of her admirers, & you
"have I know some interest in my happiness. -- You and I
"were both acquainted with her talents & manners, but we
"cou’d not read the depths of her understanding, nor the secrets
"of her heart -- my dear friend -- you have tasted the cup of
"felicity in the most sincere friendship, in a mutual en-
"-gagement of Interests & in a perfect harmony of opinion
"& I have enjoyed the sweets of sacrificing to the enjoyment of
"others -- much of this I have also felt -- but the ties of
"the present. -- If any woman on Earth by the most inter-
"=esting tenderness to every feeling of a husband, by the most
"kind, most attentive assiduities, by the most sincere