Rachel Todd letter to Charity Rotch, Hartford, July 8, 1822

              B-311-23
               Hartford July 8, 1822
    My Dear Charity
        Having recently parted with 
  our mutual friends M & N. Bull, & their daughter Hetty
  who have spent the evening with us, I feel that I can
  =not retire to rest untill I have communed with thee
  an hour or two in this way- Our theme this evening,
  as is commonly the case, when in company with those dr
  friends, has stretched away beyond the Aleganys, we
  expressed our gratitude to thee my dr C for thy kindness
  in so speedily answering our letters last spring, and
  we dwell't much on the departed day, & hours, which have
  been spent in the endearing society of our beloved friends,who
  are now for away - we were united in feeling that
  those day & those hours have been among the most
  profitable, as well as the most pleasing, of our lives.
      The subject could not but excite in my bosom
  a glow of affectionate, & gratfull feeling seldom
  produced- we had anticipated a return of those scenes
  & interviews so satisfactory to our feeling, but have
  been disappointed - was it not decided upon, my dr frd,
  return at the expiration of one year, or were we mis=
  taken, or have you since made differnet arrangements
  when you last departed from N. England, that you should