Rachel Todd letter to Charity Rotch, Farmington, May 16, 1807

              B-311-1 
	
	                       Farmington  May 16th  1807-
	           My dear friend will perceive by the liberty
	
	I am about to take with her, that I place sufficient
	trust in her indulgence- Indeed were my confidence
	not very great I should not venture to ask her for
	new favours until I had made some small requital
	for the many & very kind ones already receiv d from
	her- yet believe me these favors are felt in my heart,
	not as the fetters of obligation, but like those kind of
	ties which bind hearts together. 
	               My friend will recollect that my husband
	applied to her last winter for a loan of money- at that
	precise time it was inconvenient for her husband to
	advance it, but in his letter he intimated a hope that
	it might be convenient in the course of a few months,
	     My husband hoping to get a long without troubling
	Mr. Rotch, did not take advantage of his kind encou=
	=ragment- but having been disappointed in his ex=
	pectations of collecting money where it is due, he is
	under the painful necessity of applying somewhere
	for assistance- this assistance he might probably obtain
	of some of our monied men in Farmington could he
        submit to receive so great a favor from person whom
        he cannot rank as friends to Mr. Rotch he would
        fearlessly apply could he be assured that Mr. Rotch could
        oblige him with-out in the least disobliging himself 
        but till he knows this he cannot apply will you then
        my dear friend, give this necessary information if it can
        be done with-out consulting your husband(who poor man
        must be kept in profound ignorance)what a bold request
        have I made- it is no less than to desire you to keep a