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Boston Franklin Place June 18th 1798 My Dear Sir While with superior pleasure I acknowledge your ma- ny, 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 continu -ed through life inexplicably dear to her soul.

Whenever it may suit Doctor Barton's convenience to trans -mit 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 pay -ment to my Printers, I cannot but be embarrassed by this cir -cumstance.

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.