We arrived at this place last evening about seven Oclock, where we have found most excellent accommodations. We have been highly favored with charming weather—excellent roads and good entertainment ever since we left you.— find the chariot a much easier carriage than the coachee. The President thinks he never made so great a progress in his journey with so much ease to himself as the present. 6 At Worcester I bought Ovids metamorphoses, the melody of whose verse and sound observations, in some measure deluded us of time and has made our journey quite agreeable.

We have been to church the whole day—have had two very good sermons and have heard musick, equal to the musick of the spheres. One could hardly sit still and hear it. To hear such musick, would I think be quite an object for one to go to church if there were none other.— Love to Louisa if you please— tell her that we have not been into a tavern where apple pies have not been put on the table, but we did not eat them— We left them all for her.

With a wish that your journey may be as comfortable and agreeable as ours has hitherto been

I am your

We arrived on the 10th. 1 I, much oppressed by one of my great Colds, which is now going Off.— I could obtain only one little Room and one little bedroom. but We can make a shift. I came here more loaded with Sorrow than with Rheum.— Sally opened her Mind to me for the first time. I pitied her, I grieved, I mourned but could do no more. a Madman possessed of the Devil can alone express or represent.— I renounce him.— K. Davids Absalom had some Ambition and some Enterprize.2 Mine is a mere Rake, Buck, Blood & Beast.

To go from a private Calamity to a public the Fever in Phyladelphia is still bad, from ten to fourteen in a day. The great black frosts which come before the Middle of Novr.

If the Weather has been as wett in New England as here, you will have a damp Journey and not pleasant Roads.

I must be seperated from you a whole month, which will appear to me long enough.