Happy for us that it is so— The belief of it, has kept many a one, from sinking under the weight of Affliction—. RC Adams Papers. I have received your Letter containing the orders upon the branch bank, and also that with the bill of lading of 3 barrels; 1 I ought to have written you this information a post or two ago, but some business, more indolence, and most of all forgetfulness was the occasion of my omission.
I suppose you will soon commence Attorney, and I understand you have some thoughts of retiring into one of the back Counties of Pensylvania, to commence practice. I have an Oration to deliver on the 4 th: of next month, as you know I have written and committed it to memory, and am thoroughly disgusted with it.
He came, he saw, and was overcome. The gentle Celadon, was smitten at meeting with a first sight love—unable to contain his amorous pain, he breathed his sighs about the Streets; and even when seated on the bench of Justice, he seemed as if teeming with some woful ballad to his mistress eye-brow.
In short his attractions were so powerful, that the Lady actually has the subject under consideration, and unless the Judge should prove as fickle as he is amorous and repent his precipitate impetuosity so far as to withdraw his proposal, You will no doubt soon behold in the persons of these well assorted lovers a new edition of January and May.
Adams Family Correspondence, volume 9. Boston June Not found.
