Boston March 25th. 1753 Brother Wooley,1

Since I see you last at Philadelphia, I have been constantly Engag'd with heats & colds, Storms & Tempests, but amidst all my Fatigues & hurries I have never forgotton my Freinds, but have often thought of you with a great deal of Satisfaction & desire. I have never have had any perticular Oppertunity of writing to you, till now. Mr. Addington Davenport a perticular Freind of mine is travailling that Way an acquaintance wth. whom I doubt not will be very Agreable to you as he is a Gentleman of great Ingenuity. Pray Remember me to all acquaintance & tell Mrs. Read that I have not forgott the Care she took of me, give my Sincere Respects & Service to Dr. Bond & Family & Complements to all the Ladies I have had Any Acquantance. I am bound to Sea very soon but hope in the Fall if possible to visit the City of Brotherly Love, I never think of Philadelphia without a vast deal of pleasure, I had some Acquaintance there wch. I believe I never shall forget. Excuse my Brevity & assure yr. Self that I am yr. Loving Brother very Freind & humble Servt.,

ROBT. TREAT PAINE

LbC ; addressed: To Dr. Stephen Wooley at Philada. pr. favr. Mr. Davenport."

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Stephen Woolley (1724–1776), son of Edmund and Mary (Parsons) Woolley, and nephew of William Parsons, surveyor general of Pennsylvania, was a medical practitioner in Philadelphia (information from Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., former librarian of the American Philosophical Society).