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try has risen in my estimation by a comparison with 

 this. We are in the rear, but not so far as I had imagined 

 before I came to England. IJiave it in contemplation to 

 go to the Continent for a few weeks in the coming au 

 tumn, but I cannot speak decisively. I want a good com 

 panion who speaks French well. Those whom I remember 

 with affection in New Haven are so numerous that I cannot 

 mention them all ; I therefore give you a general commis 

 sion to remember me as you know I wish to be remem 

 bered. Pray write often, and remember that you are 

 surrounded by friends and the dearest relations of domestic 

 life, but that I am a stranger in a strange land, and there 

 fore need the consolations of friendship. I am, my dear 



friend, very affectionately yours 







TO MR. AND MRS. G. 8. SILLIMAN. 



LONDON, July 14, 1805. 



DEAR HEPSA, Give me credit a little, if you 



please. I have not lost my heart since I arrived in Eng 

 land. The worst thing I have done in this way is to fall in 

 love with a portrait of a young lady in a gallery of pictures 

 in London. I have been several times to see this lovely 

 picture, and have ranted about it terribly in my journal, 

 but that 's all ; the lady I believe is dead, so no harm 

 done. 



How are you both ? Do you ever talk about your brother ? 

 Have the sweet babes forgotten me ? how do they do ? kiss 

 them both a hundred times. As I said before, there are 

 no babes in England like them. Has our venerable mother 



visited you this summer ? Now that I am so far 



away, I realize, more than I ever did, her almost saint-like 

 excellence. There are very few such mothers (or such 

 women) as, dear Hepsa, your mother was and mine is. I 

 doubt not that the one will go to heaven, and the other is 

 there. There is no news, my dear friends ; only invasion is 

 still talked off, and the English are expecting every day to 



