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[ca. October- 1807]
My Dear Madam Madam You will no doubt think me a very Strange fellow not to have answered your affect. to ( affectionate)letter of the 4th of July before this late hour - but I must inform you the letter was mispent and instead of coming to this place it went to Wilmmington X god knows where before it reach me - which thro' some mis=management in the Post Office very frequent=ly happens - since I rec'd it I have been from home X the family has been so unable that I could not find time to write you a line further it occurred to me that you had probably left New York to spend the summer in someof the Eastern States - but why (word crossed out) multiply apologies is nor not writing I should rather seek an excuse for intruding on you at all when I can afford you no amendment nor any other satidfaction but that of being informing of your friend & their health - Our situation is so retired & so much secluded from the busy world that we neither hear nor see nor heardly know what is going on in it so that you can expect nothing new from us and I should be very glad if could give information of the health of your friends.
The summer nd fall have remarkably unhealthy in this country & your friends here & at Edenton have had their share of ill health but we are thankful to providence that it have not been worse - My father is in tolerable health at present but has been a good deal unwell this last summer - in addition to the native dis-order of our climate this ague & fever we have had the influenza, a very prevalent thou slight.
I observe by the papers that it has visited your city (crossed out - I hope ) I believe invoiced in has paper through the whole continent - I hope you have not suffer by it - I trouble myself very little with poleticks. I only read enough of the newspapers to know what is going forward in the world indeed things go so contrary to my wishes in the line of politicks that I care not how little I know about them
(crossed out: I think that ) Europe seems at present on the way of some great revolution. God Almighty knows what will be the fate of - My (crossed out:whole) times attention & study is at present devoted to my fathers plantation which he's not able to attend to himself. The prospects of crops are remarkably flattering this year and the farmers seem to have no other apprehensions but that of being able to get clear of them - last it was quite the reverse perk up, there never was a year that
Memo for W S, Johnson in New York
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