I'm sure they are charming people, I long to see them
I wish you would write to me in French, I could read
your letter, tho' I could not reply to it in the same.
language. — If you don't make haste home
all your friends will be either married, or dead, or
the former within a short time we may reckon three
in your own family, your Aunt Penelope, your Cousin
Henrietta, & your Sister Hannah, Henrietta too I hear
is shortly to be added to the list — I will wait your
return if poƒsible, but pray do not tarry long, in the
        mean time I am your most affec^ate Bell Tyler