Sarah Fisher letter to Charity Rotch, Philadelphia, 6 mo 25th 1821

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  My Dear Aunt         Philadelphia 6 mo 25th  1821
	           I did not intend it should have been
so long before I took up my pen, to reply to thy truly
acceptable letter, which I received on my return from
New York, and felt myself deficient in not having
written before, to my beloved Aunt, but as several
of our friends remained with us, for some time after
our Yearly Meeting, and having other engagements
have put it off.   We had a large Yearly Meeting,
and I thought a good one;  though there was not
as many friends from other Yearly Meetings as usual.
dear Elizabeth Cogeshell attended it, we had but
little of her company as the day she intended to
have visited us she was confined to her bed, having wet
her feet the day before, on the morning of which there
was a snow storm, which made it very exposing to
those who who had to walk; may ere sick after it.
we had a very interesting company of friends who
lodged with us, I think more so than usual, to the
number of 17 among whom were Mary Rotch, Thomas
Arnold and his daughter Anna, Mary Scott a
daughter of Job Scotts also John Hicks a son of
dear Isaac Hicks who is companion to E Cogeshell
it is the first journey of the kind he has ever underta-
ken a very valuable young man  for whom I feel