Sarah Rotch Arnold letter to Charity Rotch, Boston, 4th mo 25, 1824

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	                    Boston  4th  Mo 25. 1824
	       I have been waiting my dear Aunt to collect
	materials for a letter, of sufficient interest to send
	thee;  & having expected to pass next mo in N Bedford
	I thot intelligence of thy friends from there, would
	be more acceptable than any thing I might find
	in this City.  but finding there will be no vaca-
	tion at Dr Parke s school we have resolved to con
	tinue here until Autumn-  I hear often from my
	brothers & sisters, but they do not convey much
	news-  Thou hast probably been informed from
	there of Aunt Mary Rotch s journey to Phila with
	Mary Newhall, from apprehended duty- it seems
	many years ago MN- laid her concern to visit
	that city before Lynn Mo meetg, but some of the
	disaffected towards her opposed it & she gave it
	up, but has never felt released, nor has the
	time arrived entirely open- I saw her the week
	previous to her leaving home, & attended a little
	meetg she appointed amongst the poor people
	at Nahant, to whom she preached in very great
	simplicity, & with much power-  we returned
	home with her, & she gave me an account of the
			     to go to Phila
	progress of this requisition^ she said she had felt
	as if she could do nothing to make a way for the journey