In July 1779, the eighty-two-year-old Hannah Lee wrote this letter to her Loyalist granddaughter, who had been forced to flee Marblehead, Massachusetts for the safety of Halifax, Nova Scotia at the start of the war four years earlier. She described the changes the war had brought to their former home, paying special attention to the newfound status of a woman she enslaved, Flora. She also conveyed a short note from Flora to her daughter, who Lee's family had taken with them to Nova Scotia.