Do you continue to preserve Madame De S.'s good opinion of your talents for the harp? And do you find that you converse with more facility in the French? These are interesting questions, and your answer to this will, I hope, answer fully, all the questions it contains. Vale, vale.
A. BURR
TO THEODOSIA,
Albany, 16th August, 1704.
Another post has arrived, and brought me no letter from you. It is the last omission which I shall readily pardon, and this only in consideration of your not having then received my last. I returned this day from Ballston, and my principal business to this city was to receive and answer your letters. Judge, therefore, of my disappointment.
Mr. and Mrs. Witbeck made many inquiries about you, and appeared much mortified that you did not accompany me.
I hope you will, before this can reach you, have answered J. Yates's letter. Once more I place my expectations on the arrival of the next post.
Let me know whether Mrs. Penn has left town, how often you have been with her, and what passed. I need not repeat my anxiety to know how you and Madame de S. agree, and what progress you make in music, dancing, and speaking French. She promised to give you now and then a lesson on the forte-piano; is she as good as her word?
Having failed in your promise to write by every post, you cannot expect me to return within the month—one promise being founded on the other.
Your affectionate papa,