Sarah Rotch Arnold letter to Charity Rotch, New Bedford, 5th month 31st 1807

              B-233-6 
    (partial letter)
   
		         New Bedford 5th month 31st  1807
	    I neglected writing thee my dear Aunt, last month
	supposing thou wouldst be in New york, & that thou
	wouldst get a letter written to day as soon;  as in all
	probability you will not reach home before next
	3rd or 4th days  I hope thou wilt then write me & inform
	me thou hast prevailed with dear uncle Thos to escort
	thee to our Yearly Meeting;  to our own little Village & to
	the Isle of his nativity for I think this would be
	a pleasing little tour to thee & I am sure would be
	very gratifying indeed to all your friends- who is
	likely to visit us this Summer from the westward
	we have been hoping dr R Mott would, but cannot
	yet learn that he has a prospect of it nor do we
	hear of any one else- Poor Jeremiah has at last
	reached here, but so altered; so dejected that thy heart
	my dear Aunt would bleed with ours, in beholding
	him, all his fortitude has abandoned him, & he
	seems wholly given up to a prey to his own too
	severe & bitter reflections, when we speak to him he
	raises his eyes as from a profound remorse, answers
	with no small degree of exertion in [illegible]
	& relapses into his former dejection   It is the opin
	ion of most who are acquainted with him that
	some employment which would require an exertion
	of the mind to perform would be the most effect
	ual means (if any case can be found) to recall him
	to that situation of mind from which he is now estranged