Conducting Myself Through the Vexatious Labrynth, Etc.: Page #2

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Boston Franklin Place June 18th 1798 My Dear Sir While with superior pleasure I acknowledge your many, and repeated favours, I take leave to ask if my Brother's responses to the dispatches of government are not yet received? how he determines with respect to his removal? and whether we may indulge a hope of seeing him here, before he commences his journey to the Missisipi?

Your benevolence will teach you to allow for the feelings of a sister tremblingly alive to every thing which may affect a Brother who was one of the earliest objects of her attachment, and who hath continued through life inexplicably dear to her soul.

Whenever it may suit Doctor Barton's convenience to transmit the amount of the copies of the Gleaner, which he engaged, it will be very acceptable to me.

A large majority of my subscribers are astonishingly remiss, and while I am obliged to make punctual payment to my Printers, I cannot but be embarrassed by this circumstance.

Addressing Colonel Hodgdon in that character of amity, which his repeated acts of kindness authorizes, I take the liberty to observe, that my pecuniary perplexities from my publication are far beyond every calculation which I had made -- my manuscripts ex- tended considerably further than the three hundred pages per volume, for which I originally agreed with my printer, and for each extra page, I am charged one dollar and two thirds -- this circumstance, with other contingencies, have swelled a debt of fifteen hundred dollars.