To Mrs. Fitzgerald.
Temple-house, Sept. 11.
Your letter, my dear Bell, was sent by this post to the country.
It is unnecessary to tell you the pleasure it gives us all to hear
of your safe arrival.
All our argosies have now landed their treasures: you will believe
us to have been more anxious about friends so dear to us, than the
merchant for his gold and spices; we have suffered the greater
anxiety, by the circumstance of your having returned at different
times.