Chelmsford Sep r 7 th. 1769

Dear Sammy

Your Papa being very much engag d, desires me to answer your Letters, which I do with pleasure, tho' not so great as if I had the Happiness of being acquainted with the family you are with. since the want of that knowledge obliges me to confine my Pen within y e very narrow limits of the John not Styles; such as saying, we are glad to hear you are well, for as to your being happy, we were to well assur d of its being y e Consequence of your being in Suffolk that there was scarce need of your Pens Corroborating as Circumstance we were so certain of. we have read two Letters from your Essex Brothers, (as you called 'em in your last) they are both in your Situation, well & happy, & very much delighted with the kind Notice taken of them by the principal families in y e Town: M r & M rs Gray amongst many others, have been particularly obliging in asking them to Dinner &c & every Tuesday they tell me is a