Plymouth Octr. 6th 1763 The second Epistle of Robert the Lawyer to Our beloved Sister Eunice Greeting,

I recd. yours by Mr. Adams & intended to have written more fully than I find I can by Reason of the Avocations of Court arising not from the fulness of Business but from an earnest attention to the want of it.

The subject Matter of yr. Epistle has been in my thoughts all Summer & I proposed consulting Sprage on the premisses when last at Boston but could not see him, & I had settled it in my Mind that your health was too precarious to admit long absence from his Influence. I am my self in very low health & had determind some Journey for my recruit. Philadelphia was my desire, but hardly expected to have accomplished that, & at least determind for Connetticut to see to some of our affairs there, but had determined nothing further. As to yr. accompanying me to Philadelphia, it would by no means suit yr. design, considering the lateness of the Season which would render it on my return inconvenient even on horseback, & then I have no horse fit for such a Journey in a Chaise nor any Chaise fit for it. I am extremely desirous to consult yr. health as well as my own, as little as I love riding in a Chaise, but it is a little unlucky for two invalids to Journey for health when the same method of Journeying is not equally serviceable to both, & the places where my business would call me are unpassable with a Chaise for you. However I want to see Lancaster & Worcester, & I believe that must be our Rout. I suppose you'll have no preparation to make but such as you can soon do, & if I can possibly contrive any thing for yr. Advantage I will, but if I had known it before I could have contrived better. However I will write you more271from Taunton, & expect to hear from you next week, perticular whether you think you can jumble over the Rocks to Canterbury.

Tell Mr. Palmer I wrote to Mr. Thomas about his Bee Books1& expected to have received them at Plymouth but Mr. Thomas had been a journey & was but just returned when the Genral came from thence & so I have heard nothing. Yr. Loving Brother

R.T. PAINE

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

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