Boston Octr. 18th. 1757
Our Eunice,
I have no time to come & see you by Jinkums. I have been this fortnight past up to the Eyes in Old Papers, in the midst of wch. I have sat as I did once among a Room full of scholars, examining them one by one & ordering them to their several Classes, & in short the various Ideas they raise in my mind are as impertinent & confused as 54the tittle tattle of a School, & could tongues be given them they would make infinitely more hubbub. I chastise multitudes for their Ignorance & many a one I turn by; Thus it comes to pass that my head is intirely stuff d with Accounts settled & unsettled, do. drawn out; do. given, Receipts, Notes, Contracts Bonds, Policys, Charterpartys, Bills of Laden Invoices, Letters Orders, & Protests &c.&c. Thus am I at present engaged, besides innumerable Miscellanious Matters. Next week the Court sets by Adjournmt. where I have Business. I suppose you have heard of my breaking bulk & opning my mouth in misterys.1 Well, the week after the Supr. Ct. sets by Adjournment & as soon as that is over I shall embark for Conneticutt, and purpose to take you in my way, & if you get a visit by that time, you'll fare better than most of my country Girls do, some of wch. begin to be impatient. I assure you, you must think your self highly favoured wth. so long an Epistle, for there is a rumour spread in town that I am advancing towards the sphere of the higher Powers, wch. has sett all my Correspondents of the Middling Order on the Watch & caused them to throw forth all their Excellencys. This Circumstance demands all my attention, to recive addresses & give answers which affords me no small gamut, (you know I have a faculty at laughing at wt. scares others to death) so that you would not have had the honour of this long History, were it not I have been for this severall months past most deeply in Love, but who the Object2 is, I can't with all my Inginuity find out, & I hope I never may for I dread the consequences of so dismall a Catastrophe. I keep this a profound secret least the Enemies of my peace should sing to Deam to Venus. However I hope I have gotten over the worst of it, & expect now long Ev'nings are come & Still Nights invite to study, to grow as humgrum as ever. If you should come to Boston it will not be amiss to let you know
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you are there. You may come in yr. homespun for matter of any good fine Cloaths will do you at this markett. I assure you Sister we are intirely glutted. I hear nothing of the Electricity. I expect the season is over for Thunder & lightning. I think of nothing to write about, only that I am as usual
R.T.P.