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and believe me, my dear Mrs. Langdon, I was extremely uneasy till I heard you got safe to Portsmouth. Mrs. Loring* told me you had met with some inconvenience at the Ferry, which really alarmed me exceedingly for you. However, I was soon quieted by receiving a line from you with mention of your health. The time you kindly spent with me in this solitary wilderness has riveted a lasting impression of pleasure upon my mind; nor do I forget our tedious walks which the charms of the meadow scarcely made up for. I have taken but one since, and then lost both my shoes and came home barefoot.

Mrs. Livius arrived here on Monday afternoon and appeared nearly as tired as you was, but would not own it.

She staid here three nights for fair weather, and at last went over the pond in a high gust of wind, which made a great sea and white caps as large as the Canoe.

I was much afraid for her, but she got over quite safe. She told me you was unwell when she left town, and I am anxious to hear you are recovered again. I wish you had tarried at Woin)orough till you had established your health. Indeed, you ought to be very attentive to keep your mind easy and calm, or you will be often subject to indispositions that will become mighty troublesome to you. I was pleased at all the intelligence you gave me; for, although I live in the woods, I am fond of knowing what passes in the world. Nor have any ideas sunk in rural tran(]uillity half enough to prefer a grove to a Bail-room. I wish you were here to take a game of Billiards with me, as I am all alone. The Governor is so busy in directions to his workmen that I am most turned hermit.

The great dancing room is nearly completed, with the Drawing Room, and begins to make a very pretty appearance. I hope you will be here next sum- mer with all ray heart, and then our house will be more in order than it was when you tavored me with a visit, and less noise. For in fact my head is most turned with the variety of noises that is everywhere about me, and I am hardly fit to bear it, as I have been in poor health ever since you left me, and am hardly able to live. However, I hope to be stout now the winter comes on, as the summer never agrees with my constitution, which looks strong, but is quite slender. When Mrs. Loring left me, I gave her in charge your side sad- dle, which she promised me to send home to you. I hope it was not forgot. If it was, it must have been left at Staver's tavern, and you can send there for it, if you have not received it before this time.

The cruel came safe, and I will trouble you for the worsted you mentioned, as it will do just as well as English; and, if you please, one skein more of cruel, as we were much in want of it.

I have done very little work since you went away; not because I was indo- lently disposed, but because you did so much in helping me that I have noth- ing to do. So now I read or play as I have a ramd to do. I get but very little of my Governor's comjiany. He loves to be going about, and sometimes (except at meales) I don't see him an hour in a day. The season of the year

born November I. 1744. and married Octol)er 19, 1709 (the same year with Lady Wentworth's last marriage),!Ion. Joshua Loring, Jr., son of Commodore Joshua aud Mary (Curtis) Loring of Boston, lie died at Englesfield, England, iu 1789, aged foity-tive. after having held many important positions under the British crown. His wife survived him; and, through the representation of Lady Went- worth of the loses of her husband, in consequence of his devotion to his sovereign during the American IJevolution, to Loi-d North, she was placed upon the British Pension list. She had a son, John Wentworth Lorinij (born the same year with Gov. Wentworth's son), who left descendants.
 * The Mrs. Loring alluded to was the only child of Hon. Nathaniel Lloyd, uncle
 * of Hon. Jiunes Lloyd, a long time U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. She was

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