462 JAMES FREEMAN [1774. 



London, 12 mo., 20th, 1773. 



Esteemed Friend : 



I received thine and thy son's letters. * 



It has been a great favour to be favoured with such a share of 

 health and faculties to thy time of life ; and no doubt thou must 

 expect the gradual decay of nature. But it's a happiness thou 

 mayest enjoy, in having children grown up, and well disposed to 

 render thee every filial comfort (for thy past care and attention 

 during their tender years), which I hope will be continued to thee 

 to the latest period. 



Uncle desires his respects ; and that I would acquaint thee he 

 Avrote to Doctor Chalmers, of Charleston, to supply thy son with 

 some money, and he will draw on him, viz., Dr. Fothergill, for 

 the same : which may now make thee quite easy in that respect. 



It will, to be sure, be the second month ere I can write again, 

 when I hope to write to thy son. In the interim, 



I remain thy friend, 



Js. Freeman. 



London,. 12 mo., 18th, 1774. 



Esteemed Friend : 



I received thine 29th, 9th mo. last, and was glad to find thee 

 yet able to write ; and the pleasure to look back to thy infancy, 

 and on good grounds, I hope, to feel such comfortable reflection on 

 the several parts of thy life, now in advanced age, must be 

 unspeakably great ; and I sincerely wish it may continue to thy 

 conclusion. * * * 



I sincerely sympathize with the children of an ungrateful 

 mother, in their present dilemma. Their resolves seem to be not 

 hastily, but deliberately adopted, and some of them, I should 

 hope, would be steadily abode by, even if the mother should 

 repent her severity towards her children, and again restore to them 

 their natural rights ; those I mean are the abolition of the slave 

 trade, and that of horse-racing, stage plays, &c, which, in the first 

 case, would be full proof of their true idea of liberty ; and in the 

 last, of their affection to their children, in preserving their morals 

 from corruption, as far as in their power lies : for surely nothing 



