Without attempting to make an apology for allowing your two last favours to remain so long unanswered, I will at once inform you my reasons for it, and submit the validity of them to your Judgment— Your first Letter came to hand whilst Colo.

I had the happiness to recieve your last letter, and permit me to return you many thanks for the favor— I am pleased to find that you have had the goodness to admit of my apologies for my long silence, and I am determined that I will not in future give you any reason to condemn your own generosity, or to suspect my sincerity— The incertainty of your place of abode was always a discouraging circumstance, and raised in me the fears of a miscarriage, than which nothing can be more disagreable, or more destructive of a free and easy Correspondence.