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My Deares Love

it is with the greatest Pleasure I hear from your Aunt of your being in perfect health, though my anxious heart has Longed for your Return - but, let not that hasten your Return if you find your health benefitted by your stay, I am unhappy that I cannot have the Pleasure of Seeing this Day owing to Some business Which I have to get finished but Shall be with you to Morrow Shou'd I be obliged to walk, for I ashure [[^you]] it is puting a great constraint on myself to be without the Blessing of Seeing you so long - let me conjure you [[underline]] my Ever beloved, [[/underline]] to take care of your Dear Self you know my heart and Soul is wrapt up in you, so that as you have the Charge of us both, [[underline]](tho absent from me)[[/underline]] you will be carefull