Rachel Todd letter to Charity Rotch, Farmington, November 16, 1811

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	                   Farmington   November 16th  1811
	      I did not intend such a length of time should
	elapse, without giving our dearly belov d friends some
	account of ourselves, but when we received yours from
	Chambersburgh , & Bedford, which two came together, &
	are the last we have received, I had just finished a long
	letter which, I found after a little consideration I could
        not
	^send; it was an answer to two letters previously received,
	one from Philadelphia, & one from Lancaster, which contained
        a few expressions, occasion d by the disappointment of my dear
	Charity; which I was Silly enough to feel a little hurt
	about, & consequently sat myself down & wrote almost a 
	half  a day upon the subject, & after all was glad to com=
	mit it to the flames without any one seeing it; for I 
	well knew, that such feelings as were expressed in the
	letter from Lancaster, could not, for any length of time
	inhabit the Breast of my Charity you  can not im=
	magine dear friends the satisfaction we receive from your
	goodness in writing to us, indeed I scarcely know what would
        become of us, in this; our lonely situation, were we deprived 
        of the pleasure afforded us, by your interesting letters 
        your progress has far outstripped all our calculations
        & we have very much fear d your strength would