Rachel Todd letter to Charity Rotch, Farmington, July 10, 1813

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	                          Farmington  July  10th  1813
	             Thy kind & affectionate letter my beloved
				       the
	Charity, has been received with ^ tenderest emotions
	of gratitude, & be assured my dearest friends that, what
	=ever may have been the appearances no negligence of
	writing, or delay of any kind on my part, has ever pro=
	ceded from any abatment of friendship, or  diminution
	of regard   but on the contrary your Idea is ever present
	in my  hours of tender recollection, I have suffered much
	from the want of a friend like thyself my dr C. & I
	have dwelt more; & with deeper regret on thy absence
	if possible, than ever, since I wrote you last, which
	I am ashamed to say was [Illegible]   last fall 
	I have frequently said[illegible]  strange it is
	that, deprived as we are [illegible]between
	each other accept by writing[illegible] should so neg=
	=lect this only method[illegible] our sentiments
	& feelings, as not to write scarcely since in a year, &
	after all, could not muster resolution sufficient to write,
	had I not experienced such repeated proofs of the benev= 
	olence of our hearts, & felt an unbounded confidence in