Mary R. Morton letter to Charity Rotch, Newport, 20th 11th mo 1797

              B-273-1 
  
	My Dear Cousin
                I received thy kind & very acceptable
letter a day or two after my confinement, - Our beloved friends
R Jordan & J White could give you a verbal account of my
situation -& since I have been able to write, I have often
intended to have added a more particular one- as I felt it
due to the tender sympathy you manifested towards me.
                                    In a manner 
suffice it now to say that I was favoured that I 
had never presumed to ask: for in looking towards the solemn
hour, I think patience under suffering, & resignation to
the Divine Will in the vent, bounded my desires upon the
subject.---David Buffam called this evening to let
us know that he expects to go to Bedford tomorrow- &
tho the time is very short, & I very unqualified to write
as I wish, yet thought I could not omit so good an oppor
-tunity of acknowledging thy favour, & making a hasty
scrawl the vehicle of our affectionate sympathy with
thee on the occasion of the failure of thy dear Mothers health
which we heard of a day or two ago we have had no par-
                       tho 
-ticulars, & still hope, that her tender frame is affected
by the first approach of cold weather, yet when the winter
is fitted it will prove more friendly to her constitution
than the last warm season did.  I was sensibly disappointed