My dear Portia

I am called to this Place, in the Course of my Duty: but dont conceive from it any hopes of Peace. This desireable object is yet unhappily at a Distance, a long distance I fear.

My dear Charles will go home with Maj. Jackson. Put him to school and keep him steady. -- He is a delightfull Child, but has too exquisite sensibility for Europe.

John is gone, a long journey with Mr. Dana: he will serve as an Interpreter, if not a Clerk, and the Expence will be little more than at Leyden. He will be satiated with travel in his Childhood, and care nothing about it, I hope in his riper Years.

I am distracted with more cares than ever, yet I grow fat. Anxiety is good for my Health I believe.

Oh that I had Wings, that I might fly and bury all my Cares at the Foot of Pens Hill.