Eunice Wells letter to Charity Rotch, Hartford, May 17, 1808

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			Hartford May 17th  1808
My Dear Friend
       Thy imagination can better paint, than I
can describe the pleasure it gave me, to hear of thy
returning health.  I hope the time may not be far
distant when we shall be permitted to embrace each
other, if not in perfect health, yet with that degree
of it, which shall impress our minds more strongly with
the obligation we are under to that being who is the
author of all good.  This day thy good Husband has
found leisure to call for a few moments, & let me
assure thee it was next meeting my dear Charity, I have
had it in my heart to visit him ever since I heard of
your return, but during thy absence I have again become
[illegible] industrious,  friend Thomas can inform thee I have
taken the charge of a multitude of  Men which together
with my own domestic concerns obliges me to be rather the
reverse from idle, & confines my attention more within my
own doors than I could wish, especially in this beautiful
season of the year.  When I began writing this, I had just
returned from riding & was more fatigued than I was con
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=vinced of, which I hope will be some apology for ^writing,
after a little rest I find myself again(what I call) well.-
I have not seen our dear Farmington friends since I parted
with them at thy house, they are I believe in usual health.
Eliz task must have been very trying-