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Your very obliging favor by M^r W. Nelson
is of a piece with all your former friendship to
me, & my good brother. I am disappointed that
you did not come up; for having no thoughts of
going to the eastern Shore, the Conversation of
such a friend would have assisted me in
recovering that strength & appetite which now
seems to be the only thing wanting to my reesta-
-blishment.

As to my good brother I never expected
that he could be considered as a person whom
amidst a troublesome sea, and a crowd of
applications for employment, it might be
eligible to give a preference to. I never heard
his name mentioned, nor the most distant
enquiry made about him, by one of your
correspondents: the other did indeed upon
hearing me answer to an Inquiry concerning
him, ask me if he was still in Philadelphia.
From symptoms such as these I think much
stronger conclusions may be drawn, than
from expressions which are often unwillingly
forced from persons in particular situations.
Not daring to venture to cross the bay
in my present debilitated State, for fear of provoking a relapse, I shall remain at home till
my poor Henry, now confined to his Bed for a
week, has recovered from his Illness. I shall
then endeavor to go to Winchester to bring
home my wife.

I beg you to present me most affectionately
to M^rs Page, & your daughter, & [Lens] &c.
Tell Frank I rely upon finding him in
Wmsburg before the first of December.

[illegible]
John Page esq^r
of Rosewell
Favor of M^r W. Nelson.