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With weeping joy I traced the well known characters
of my charming Friend: & the tears of sensibility bedew'd
my cheek in the participation of your happiness. Tho
you declaim against compliments, I hope you are not as
inveterate about apologies, for here I must stop to
make one for my not having answerd your agreeable
epistle before this, & had I not a good one to offer
believe me I wou'd not attempt it. well then my Dear
Girl ever since I receivd your letter I have been sick
with the Infuenceza, for I had it not when evry
other person had it, & vainly flatterd myself I shou'd
escape. I am now so unwell that it with difficulty
I hold my pen. Methinks I see you, with eyes beaming
with pleasure: & expressive of the highest delight
seated in a Ball room surrounded by your favo'rite
beax each eagerly solicitous to render himself
^agreeable to your Divinityship, in which number no doubt
M^r Harwood what a pretty name stands foremost.
I much wonder Peggy where this black swan this
unheard of non_such thing of a man has been im_
mured all this time, certainly he meant to surprise
the unexspecting world by his appearance.

your letters afforde me great satisfaction the only
fault I finde with them is they are not long e-
nough, perhaps you may think me unreason-
able, but my Dear consider that tho you
say a great deal you leave more unsaid-
you mus[t] forgive my great desire to hear some
thing of evry person in Williamsburg, for
instance let me know how ^Mr Greenhows faimily
are, & I must apply to you also about M^r R.s
family, for Courtenay has never wrote to me
but once & then in so concise a manner that
she did not mention one of her Uncle's family
Apropos of her let me know whether there is
Any truth in C. going to be married to Mr L.
The riddle you inclosed me was very pretty &
I immediately fartherd it upon G-T- as the most
likely person, pray has P. Carr been with you
this winter, or his Brother. Your description
of M^r _W_K_M_ I think extremely well drawn
& truely charracte^ristic of that gentleman.
I have ^been but to 4 Balls this Winter for there
were many that I did not attend, the two last
were very agreeable to me, the Assembly's are
now over in Alexandria, we have not Tea-
parties there. present me affectionately to
your mam, & believe with every sentiment of
tender Friendship

Miss Peggy Davenport
Williamsburg