Mr Bruidsly and his family are recovering fast.

But Mrs Knox and myself have received a blow which demands all our fortitude

On tuesday last our lovely son Marcus in his ninth year was blooming with health, and on Wednesday night he was a lifeless corps. In the afternoon of tuesday he began to droop which continued through the night. and on Wednesday but which the Doctor and we conceived to be only the beginning of an intermittent. But in the afternoon he was seized with a convulsion fit which with a repetion occasioned his disolution1

His fond mother is inexpressibly afflicted on this sudden and awful event, which occasions such a pressure of grief as to be almost too much for human nature.

I hope however that time aided by the principles of Philosophy and religion may heal her wounded heart, but at present she is almost inconsolable

I am my dear Sir / Affectionately and respectfully / Your obedient servant

I received yesterday your Letter of the 3d and pray you to accept of many Thanks for your obliging Attention to my Affairs. Although the Rent is very high, I am perfectly Satisfied that nothing better could have [bee]n done. The House I hope will be deemed Democratical enough, although the Rent is quite princely: rather too much for a Simple Duke.

Mrs Adams joins with me in presenting our best Thanks for your kind Care and her kind Compliments to Mrs and Miss Coxe.1

I Shall leave it to the same friends who have taken so good Care of me hitherto to determine how I shall dispose of my Horses, whether at Livery stables or in others if others can be hired for me.

I am my dear sir your obliged / Friend and humble servant

Last night I received your favour of the 4th, and am much obliged by your Account of affairs in this as well as in the Letter you wrote the Week before which I have also received.

Mrs Adams joins me in friendly regards to Mrs Knox and yourself. We are very Sorry for any unpleasant Circumstances you have found 61 at Bush Hill: and very happy that it happened to be in our Power to accommodate your family for the Summer.

We are also under great Obligations to you for the Trouble you have taken to procure Us, an house in the City. The Rent is higher than I ever gave in Paris, London, Amsterdam or the Hague for Houses and Accommodations much Superiour. I have not a doubt however that you and Mr Coxe have obtained as good an House at as cheap a rate for me as you could have done for yourselves, and probably better than I could have obtained for myself if I had been there.

At any rate I was determined to live in the City, for I had well nigh ruined the health of all my family as well as my own. I dont impute this misfortune to the Situation so much as to the necessity We were under of going to Town every day in all Airs and Weathers. Bush Hill is too Aristocratical a Situation for me.

I wish the President and Mr Jefferson pleasant Journeys and a happy return. I hope to embrace you by the middle of october.1

Mean time I am with Sincere Esteem / your Friend and servant