Inside: Oliver Ellsworth letter to Nabby Ellsworth, 1779 February 3

could have prevailed with me to have staid
so long in this City, or would be sufficient to
keep me here one day longer. With great
pleasure I consider my present tour of duty
as drawing towards a close, & that there is
a prospect of my being able in about 20
days to quit my post & return home._

You will do as you please about
setting up housekeeping before I come. I hardly
think however I shall find you at Hartford -
if I should there will be this satisfaction
attending it, that I shall find you one
Hour sooner than if you stay at Windsor.

The Sattin you mention I shall with
great pleasure endeavour to obtain for you
and I wish you would freely purchase
any thing you have occasion for & can
find at Hartford, be the price what it
may_ If you want money call on my brother
who will be glad to furnish you with it
& to render you every other service in his
power

- So Mrs. Mather you tell me has a fine
son._ I wish her satisfaction in it but that
she may rember it is mortal - a lesson which
you & I my dear have learned by sad experience.
This world has now far fewer charms in my eyes
than it once had & I have no doubt but you
can say the same_ Happy for us if it keeps
a better world more constantly in view.
& is a means of bringing us to those joys &
rest into which I fully beleive our dear
departed little son is already entered [...]
I thank your good Sisters for their comp[...]
ments to me & all their kindness to you
and am my dear with great truth
sincerity

your friend & humbServt -

Oliv. Ellsworth

Mrs. Nabby Ellsworth