Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 1
Inclos'd is a Letter to Mr. Hovey1 which I2 hope you'll oblige me in delivering.
I rejoyce to hear you have got well again & hope to See yo in a little time. The Circumstances of the family you'll learn from yr. Sister who writes by Cato. I have nothing new to write at present. I intend to come shortly & see you, when I hope to be favour'd with a Sigh
Not identified.
Joseph Greenleaf (1720–1810) worked for Thomas Paine. Later a merchant, printer, and patriot, he published The Royal American Magazine from July 1774 until its end in Mar. 1775, and occasionally wrote for the patriot press under the pseudonym of "Mucius Scaevola." He married Abigail Paine on Oct. 17, 1749 (James Edward Greenleaf, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family [Boston, 1896], 77–78; Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines, 1741–1830 [New York, 1930], 83–86).
Perhaps the "Curiosity" refers to the large turtles RTP records in his diary as having found at Fresh Pond on May 3.