Boston August 28, 1758 Dear Eunice,

I suppose by this time you have gotten to Weymouth & are fix'd out with horse & saddle. Pray how do things suit. It stands you in hand to get well soon, for you must come to Boston & keep house for me. I can hire a convenient house in a fine place, & by all calculation I can keep house as cheap as I can board my self for we Lawyers are such big folks that no one will board us without paying top price tho' we agree to have nothing for it. You or somebody else must come. You have lived long eno' in Spain come & try Boston, a retired place in the midst of the Town. Think of it and tell me. Weell keep the Nag, & as a certain gentle-109man once wrote you in another case1 if you consent to come pray get a good maid & bring with you; & speak for yr. winter's butter. I must know soon. We have got things enough to keep house, & take the comfort of life our own way. I must alter soon & cant marry yet. I want to see you & Nag. Ive something to tell you from yonder.

Think of nothing further but that I am yr. disconsolate & projecting Brother & hble. servt.

R.T.P.

RC ; addressed: "To Miss Eunice Paine at Weymouth"; endorsed.

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Eunice had rejected an offer of marriage from Ebenezer Prout of Halifax arranged by her father. See Thomas Paine to Eunice Paine, Halifax, Feb. 2, 1756; and Eunice Paine to Ebenezer Prout, Boston, Mar. 8, 1756, both in the RTP Papers.