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thought. She was abroad a little more than three years 

 and a half. Mr. Baldwin enters her re-arrival in Bos- 

 ton in his diary under date of October 10, 1799, an< ^ 

 refers to her return in a letter to her father of Novem- 

 ber 4, to be copied in another connection. 



The following letter from Miss Sally to Mrs. Bald- 

 win, announcing her arrival in England, must be errone- 

 ously dated, according to her statement of a six weeks' 

 passage. 



"LONDON, March 3, 1796. 



" DEAR MRS. BALDWIN, I improve the first opportunity to 

 acquaint you of my safe arrival, and kind reception by my father. 

 We had a tedious passage of six weeks. I began to fancy the 

 hand of Providence against me. But all fatigue and anxiety are 

 now at an end, since my dear father is well, and loves me. Till 

 I see you I shall think very often upon you and the Colonel, 

 whose kindness to me I shall ever remember with gratitude. I 

 have a thousand things to say. I have only time to tell you 

 how sincerely I want to see you. I often reflect with much 

 pleasure upon the happy days and months I have spent in your 

 family. Neither time, nor absence, nor any situation of life, 

 ever so exalted, will make me forget my good friends in Amer- 

 ica ; and be assured there is none I esteem more highly 

 than you. I will thank you to give my respects to the Colo- 

 nel, &c. 



" I am your affectionate 



"SARAH THOMPSON. 

 " MRS. BALDWIN, Woburn." 



In 1793 or 1794, Miss Thompson was introduced, by 

 a daughter of the Revolutionary patriot, Robert Treat 

 Paine, to the family of the Rev. Dr. Joseph Willard, 

 President of Harvard College, in Cambridge. She 

 made a most agreeable impression on them, and became 

 thenceforward a most welcome guest on long and fre- 



