Chapter XXXVI: Letter XXXV: To Mr. R

June 25, 1776.

YOU had a pleasant day for your journey--and after five or six miles ride from town--you left the dust behind you;--of course the road and the country also improved as you drew nearer B----. I will suppose you there--and then I will suppose you found Mrs. C---- well in health, and the better for the preceding day’s motion;--she and Miss C---- meet you with the looks of a Spring-morning--I see you meet in fancy;--I wish I could see you in reality;--but of that hereafter.--I want to know how Mrs. C---- does--and what Miss C---- does;--what you intend to do--and what Mr. S---- will never do.--This letter is a kind of much-ado-about--what--I must not say nothing--because the ladies are mentioned in it.--Mr. and Mrs. B---- have a claim to my best respects.--Pray say what’s decent for me--and to the respectable table also--beginning with my true friend Mrs. C----, and then steering right and left--ending at last with your worship. Tell Mrs. C---- that Kitty is as troublesome as ever; that Billy gets heavier and stronger.--Mrs. Sancho remains, thank God, very well--and all the rest ditto.--Let me know how you all do--and how brother O---- does.--As to news, all I hear is about Wilkes;--he will certainly carry his point--for Administration are all strongly in his interest:--betts run much in his favor:--for my part, I really think he will get it--if he can once manage so--as to gain the majority.--I am, my dear R----, yours--(much more than Wilkes’s--or indeed any man’s, O----’s excepted) in love and zeal,

Ever faithfully,

I. SANCHO.