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My Dr Mother ---- 4th mo th ---9. 1792

Knowing thou would be dissatisfied was
I to neglect a nother opportunity of writeing to thee, I am
willing to try to scratch over a few lines. tho little able to do
it being very poorly with that old pain in my side which seems
to weaken me daily it has never been as bad as it was at Brook
Grove yet, the attacts are become very frequent but not very violent
I often lament the distance between me and my friends in Maryland the
attatchment being so much stronger on that side Potomack
than on this, it seems a hard and Close trial to me many
times, but hard to have as it is, I must indeavour to bare it
with as much fortitude as I am mistress of untill time shall
further direct - my dear [J?]M wishes me more happiness
here than I ever enjoied yet, or ever shall I am afraid. was
he not a kind friend to me how miserable should I be in
this poor lonesome country, where I seldom see thee face of any body