Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
After congratulating you on I recd. yrs. & am sorry to find you so disturbed in yr. situation. I wish it was more in my power to help you than it is, however you'll not find me backward in what I am able to do if you treat me generously I don't think you'll be able to lay any wilful oppression to my charge. I am extreemly sorry to hear that yr. difficulty 154are like to be encreased by the addition of another Infant. All these things I have considered in yr. favour & if I know what Compassion is, I feell it work in my bosom & have wrote Mr. Salter lately on the Subject & therefore as I take him to be yr. good freind as he is of every body that needs his assistance so you'll excuse my enlarging on this Subject with you. In genral take this for yr. Comfort I don't purpose to Sell the house over yr. head with
After congratulating you on the great success of his Majestys Arms, & hoping that yr. private prosperity bears some good proportion to the national success I take this oppertunity concerning the small dealings Subsisting between us with regard to wch. I would observe that the Cash would be very acceptable to me. You proposed writing to me when you were ready but as I have not heard from you I conclude yr. other affairs have put it out of yr. mind. If therefore Sr. you would send the money by any person that you see fit I will deliver them the Notes or if you will direct who I shall them by I will do it. I should have sent them now by Capt. Jones but I think you objected, so I leave it to yr. choice. The note is 20£ & the order from Mrs. Freeman for Gleasons debt is £11:15:9. If they could be invested in bills I should choose it as twould Commission for bringing &c. Pray Sr. let me know yr. mind by the first Oppertunity. Mean while I am