Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4
By our worthy & well belove’d Friend I send this token of my Existance which an Assault from my old spasmodick disorder might Ere this have put an End to; I am very feeble yet and carefully nursed in my chamber. But a regard to truth, a Love of virtue, and sympathetic zeal for Honour Engages my mind to the tryal you have before you, and I find a satisfaction, a confidence, in the Abilities I ascribe to you which rests all my conjectures. A man must be more than a man of sense, he must be a man of strong feelings to do justice to a mind stung with calumny. I in’ly congratulate my Friend on the choice his country has made of a Judge & mode of Tryal, of a cause which others have made his cause.1 Exceeding bad health & Stormy weather has the last week prevented the Journey we all so much rejoyce in Tomorrow we hope will be favourable to his seting out may it be a happy meeting. I hope you & yours are well Excuse this wild Trick of my pen & see in it the assurance that though feeble I am your Sister
Eunice Paine was a long-term guest in the Germantown section of Braintree as part of the household of Gen. Joseph Palmer and so had a particular interest in the outcome of the investigation into the failure of the Rhode Island expedition.