I cannot suffer myself to suppose, but that you are sufficiently satisfied of my friendship for you, to render a dissertation on that subject unnecessary, I hope when I assign you my reasons for not writing, you will be fully sensible that it has not originated from a want of regard, I have for eight weeks past been confined to my room and the greater part of the time to my bed with a violent billious fever, I have for several days been so well as to ride on horse back and found myself daily recovering, and flattered myself in a little time to have perfectly reestablished