B-117-4
Tewkesbury Massa July 18 1818
Dr Sir
My last letter from you is dated 11
month 1817 - And I shold be much
gratified by receiving another - I wish
very much to be informed of every
circumstance relative to your Country
and of its Inhabitants with whom
I have had the pleasure of some
acquaintance - As to myself I am
now in pretty good health but have
had a troublesome sickness
which confined me to my house
almost three months - a severe cold
which I took in the forepart of April
brought on the Gout and Rhuema
tism and has left me rather feeble
but in other respects pretty well - My
family are all in good health -
Our season has thus far been very good
except for english spring grain- this
of every kind suffered much by the
torrents of rain we had in April and
May - My Persian rye mostly perished
as well s all my barley of a new and
excellent kind- I had also sown