Brother John Cape Fear July 31. 1751
& Mr Child I wrote you on the 28th January
by Capt Brown since which I have not heard a word
from you – I suppose your Love affair with your other
Business engropes all your attention that you have no Time
or heart to write to your American Friends your Delight
is in a Colder Climate – We long to hear of you. Wishes
being happily complealed and the more that we guess our
Concern is equal in the Happiness of both the Parties – when the
Joney moon is over or pretty far advanced in the first Quarter at
least we insist on your writing us particularlarly all about
it your Sister Betty in a special manner expects from your
Intended Spouse (if the Lady she hopes it is) a laetter that is
a fuller account of matrimoney than she has yet had for she
longs to be better informed, by what we heard from her
lately she makes both ends meet and n*agines her Life more
Comfortable than it could be here in that Opinion we differ
From her – My Wife likes the Country very well and thinks
it has been much misrepresented to her – About a Wish ago
She brought you a lusty nephew – Her Bione and Recovery
has been so good that the Place has additional Charms
to her on that Account this is only her tenth day and
she is so well as to be about and to dine with us in an
open hall I forgot to tell you tho I have left the Town
to the Merchants ever sence March and betaken my
self entirely to a Country Life I find grat satisfaction in
it and have more time to think of my Friends and the
rest of my best Concerns then in the triffling Bustl and
and santring Impertinence than in ofthe trofling Town my sister
among the rest must have her share of this Leisur of mine
her Children ar growing up and without opportunity
of Education ar wasting ther Time I would fain per
swade her to send the two Eldest Boys under your
Lare to this She has Several Objections one or two are
that you have sent no answer to the Enquries I made
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about the Accademy which boards Clothes and schools
for £10 a year if this will not do the next step I must
lake is to try to send her home with all her Children
and my Daughter we shall be easily able allow her
from the work of her own Negroes 50 or 60 ￡Sterling
a year will not that sum maintain and her 4 or 5
Children in your Town if not what will
the People of your Profession go to such extrava
gant lengths with the poor People of this Country that
it is become a male Point with them when sick whether
to die And leave something to ther Families of to
live and be ruined by the Doctor to remedy this Evil
as much as I can I desire the favour of you to order
from your Droggist a prcel of suck medicines as
you, think will be most useful for the Distempers
of this Country and likewise a book or tow to
direct us to the use of them the value of the whole
to be about three Guineas unless you can meet with
Doctr James Dictionary tow vols folio at second
hand very cheap and can recommend it to me in this
case you may go the length of Six or Seven Guineas
ins the whole the books I have already in your way
Are 2uinseys Dispensatory the late British Ditto
and allcans Synopsis 2 vols I Shall order Messrs
Oswald and Compa to repay you or your order
I should be glad to be better informed of the n*n
Ure of vegetables of which we have so great var
Iety in this Country I have the two volumns
Millars Dictionary but that only gives their
Characters and method of Cultivation I intend
to send by this Opportunity of my Friends Thos
Child Esqr Attorney General of this Province a parce
of books of yours which I pickt up at Chesters
and brot over with me by Mistake he may be
heard of al ^for myn Wright Esqr his house in Norfolk Strat the lock pover Coffee house perhaps
in the Strand
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at the Ponsiluanin. As soon as it is in my Power to
communicate ought to your Society worth sheer notice
I intend to do it. and have desired several of our
virtuose to Correspond with them. your Sister Clark
who has been so kind as to be with her Sister during
her in lying and for some time before desires to be
affectionatly remembers to you and that you would
send among the rest of the medicines that Salve or
Ointment you order’d from So Carolina for Mrs Donglas’s
Sore lyes, or a Receipt for making it. Any of the
Medicines such as Rhubarb and Bark that you
think will be cheaper at Boston, order little or
none of for I can be easily supplied from home
I shall be glad to hear frequently from you, and
now I am more master of myself and my Time
than ever. I resolve that a Correspondence with my
Friends shall not drop or informit through my
Fault. What you order for me may be directed to
The care of Mr John Watsone Mercht in Charlestown
if there be no Vosel coming hither. and if
your Druggist be one you can use freedom with
get him to put me up at the same Time a parcel
Of Gardenseeds about 8 Shs worth and take his
pay ment for altogether. I think it is very hard
That poor Will after serving so long an insign must
be obliged to buy his Commipion Preferment
I am willing to stake my Credit as far as ￡100str
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equaly with you, that is either a hundred pounds
Sterling a piece or Less as you see he has occasion
for, but as for money it is out of my Power at
resent, without tying up my hands here. James
Dear John your most affectionate Brother
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