I have only Room to add that a continuance of your regard is the Wish, And that the almighty would bless you in Health, Peace and Content, is the Prayer of your ever affectionate and Obliged

H. P.

You are much talked of here. I was really surprized at finding you so well known. Scarc[e] a person but has your name as patt and speaks with a[s] much fluency of you as of Mr. West. Mr. and Mrs. Startin from whom I have rec'ed the polites[t] marks of attention and Regard, present their kind love to you as do also Mr. Lee and Lady. I am with affection as above,

H. P.

I just heard that our Friends at Boston are all well, and that a letter from you was arrived with my things etc. I also hear that Mr. Molineaux1 was dead after 3 days illness of an inflamation in his Bowels.

Novr. 2d., 1774.

Henry Pelham to John Singleton

DEAR AND HON'D UNCLE,

PHILADELPHIA, Novr. 10, 1774.2

I am at last happy in an Opertunity of acknowledging the recei[p]t of your very welcom[e] and kind favour of Jan'y 27, which is now before me. accept my gratefull thanks, for the Bea[ulty. Doct'r Morgan has a few clever Coppys, and an Original Portrait of Angelica painted by her self. This I was so pleased with that I have taken a coppy of it in Minature.”

1 William Molineaux, a "noted merchant" of Boston, and an ardent defender of the liberties of America. A tribute to him is in the Essex Gazette, October 25, 1774.

2 This letter was first dated Nov. 2, then Nov. 4, and finally Nov. 10.

Pleasure you have given me, and for the tender regard you ther[e]in express towards me. The Gratification I experienced upon receiving a letter, from so near and dear a Fri[e]nd, makes me sincerely Regret the uncertainty and frequent miscarriages attending a Correspondence, to so remote a part of the globe as yours is from this. I must appologize to you, for not answering your affectionate favour before, but doubt not your excuse, when I inform you that this is the first Opertunity I have had, since the receipt of yours, which did not come to hand till the middle of Last June. Your kind Congratulations upon my Brother Copleys Marriage I receive with greatest Pleasure, and return the Compliment with the most heartfelt Satisfaction, in wishing you joy of the marriage of my Cousin with a Gentleman of Mr. King's Fortune and Character, and hope you will find in the Connection every possable Satisfaction and Happyness. I pray Heaven you may. The Acount you give of your family is very pleasing to me, as is your kind wish for a more regular Correspondanc[e] with me. this be assured is what I most ardently desire, as what would add much to my Happyness and seem to shorten that distance at which Providence has placed us. those Letters you or my other Fri[e]nds in Ireland, may do me the Honor of writing, if Direc[t]ed to me in Boston, New England, and put on board any Vessells (of which I am told there are many continually sailing from Limeric and Cork) bound to Philadelphia, will come to hand in the directest and speediest manner. A Gentleman of this City,1 who married a Sister of Mrs. C[opley], and in whose perticular Friendship I am hon'd takes the Care of my Letters, both to and from Ireland. So that I now Hope I have found a Channell of Conveyance that will afford me the Greatest

1 Mr. Startin.

Pleasure and Happyness, the Happyness in your Correspondance. You desire some account of your friends in America. My Hon'd Mother still continues in that declining way she was in, when I wrote you last; she still retains the warmes[t] Regard for you; And I fullfill her (often repeated) desires, in presenting her kindest Love and most sincere affection to you, and our other dear friends in Ireland. Her Heart ever glows with undiminish'd tenderness for those whom nature has placed nearest it. She much interests herself in her Neice's Marriage, and unites with me, in my Congratulations, and in wishing that every felicity thro' time and Eternity, may attend you, the new married Couple, and all your and their Conections. My Brother Cha's1 Alass! unhappy Man! sailed from Boston for Carolina, where he arrived abov[e] 8 years ago, since which I have not heard the least thing concerning him, and am entirely ignorant where he is, or weither alive or not. My other Brother your dear namesake I had the Pain of Parting with the begining of last June when he embarked for England, on his way for Italy where he proposes spend❜g 15 or 18 Months for his improvement in an art, for his excellence in which he has already received from Gentlemen in England the most distinguishd marks of applause and Friendship. His Wife, a most amiable and fine Woman, remains in Boston with the[i]r three Children, Named Elizabeth Clarke, John Singleton, and Mary, three as noble Children as are in America. I have not room in this to give you any account of my tour to this place, 350 miles from home, which I left about 2 months ago for the recovery of my Health; impaird by Nervous Disorders, with which I have been for some time troubld. By the middle of Decm'r I hope to have a happy sight of my Hon'd Mother in Boston. I conclude with

1 Peter.