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Front: Oliver Ellsworth letter to Nabby Ellsworth, 1783 April 14
Philadelphia Aprl 14. 1783.
Dear Nabby -
I am still waiting with great anxiety & solicitude to hear from you, not yet having heard any thing. - Should I hear as I hope I shall that you & the little ones are all well it will add greatly to the joy I feel in common with others on the arrival of Peace, which is come at last on terms equal to our most sanguine hopes, & demands our most gratefull acknowledgements to the supreme being. It is a great addition [...] pleasure which I feel from the return of peace that I shall now be more at liberty to pursue my own inclinations & discharge the pleasing duties I owe to my little family. Until the Storm was over I could not quit the Ship or desert any post to which I was called for the publick safety, but I have now no ambition left equal to that of spending my time in a little domestick
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Domestick circle. A few more books, I reflect, will be very convenient & these with some other little articles of furniture I shall endeavour to get here or at New York on my way home. And if there is any thing in particular which you wish for that can be obtained here better than at Hartford I shall endeavour to obtain it. goods of [...]ll kinds are now becoming plenty & cheap enough. I have already proceeded so far in trading as to buy me a suit of cloths & sell my old horse._
This is my third letter. I write too often to write long._ Daddy sends his love to Nabby & has put in three plumbs for his little boy._
You will remember me to Mother & to brother & Sister & all the rest of our friends -
I am your most affectionate - OE.
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Mrs. Nabby Ellsworth Windsor Connecticut
free. O Ellsworth
To the care of Saml Lyman Esq at Hartford