This comes to Fredericksburg fair in hopes of meeting with a speedy
Passage to you if your not there which hope you'l get shortly altho
I am almost discouraged from writing to you as this is my fouth
to you since I receiv'd any from yourself I hope you'l not make
the Old Proverb good out of sight out of Mind as its one of the
greatest Pleasures I can yet foresee of having in Fairfax in often
hearing from you hope you'l not deny it me
I Pass the time of much more agreeabler than what I imagined I
should as there's a very agreeable Young Lady lives in the same
house where I reside (Col^o George Fairfax's Wife Sister) that in
a great Measure cheats my sorrow and dejectedness tho not so as
to draw my thoughts altogether from your Parts I could wish to be
with you down there with all my heart but as it is a thing almost
Impractakable shall rest myself where I am with hopes of shortly
having some Minutes of your transactions in your Parts which will
be very welcomely receiv'd by Your