[Pamphlets. American history]

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May 29, 81.
D.r Sir
I have y.r Favor of the 17.th doubly and trebly
agreeable as it proved your own Health Mr. Gerry's and
his success. I had really fixed him to a sick Bed.
You will be anxious about our Intelligence from Europe. We have much but I am too greatly overcome by
the Heat, to sweat over the Consideration of what I ought
to communicate to be consistent with an Obligation to
Secresy imposed at this Time with a propriety not always
connected with that Injunction in our continental Assembly. However, I may tell you that your own Printers
have given you quite enough to show you that the Wheel
of Time will not afford you another such six months as
the Coming. Political Glory or Infamy of a lasting Kind
is most assuredly depending on them, more especially on
the two first of them, in which there must be an almost
universal Change of Manners. Every Requisition already
made must be fully complied with, and even more must
be in forwardness. Let not the former Calls of once for
all make us callous on this Occasion. The Execrations
of Posterity will fall more justly perhaps on the Inattention & Negligence of the States distant from the immediate Carnage of the War than upon the Despondency
and Cowardwice of those in which it centers should we
finally be disgraced by a Combination of all those Circumstances.
Y.r Anxious Fr.d
J. L.
Oh this stagnated Air of Philad.a I cannot write to
M.r Adams am happy to hear he is well at home.
(Endorsed) M.' Lovell's letter May 29.th 1781.
Among the papers of Dr. Holyoke is the following bill
against the Colony for professional services. It was
written by him on very coarse brown wrapping paper,
and is without any signature. It would appear by his
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