Hague, 31 August, 1782.
All well; you will send these papers to some printer when you have done
with them.
We have found that the only way of guarding against fevers is to ride.
We accordingly mount our horses every day. But the weather through the
whole spring and most of the summer has been very dull, damp, cold, very
disagreeable and dangerous. But shaking on horseback guards pretty well
against it.
I am going to dinner with a Duke and a Duchess and a number of
Ambassadors and Senators in all the luxury of this luxurious world; but
how much more luxurious it would be to me to dine upon roast beef with
Parson Smith, Dr. Tufts, or Norton Quincy! or upon rusticoat potatoes
with Portia! Ah! Oh! hi, ho, hum, and her daughter and sons!