I am seated once more to great sattisfaction in my business, the family and neighbourhood are well, but I propose and expect by the permission of providence to return home the latter end of October; in the mean time, I am,
Dear Unkle
Your most obliged Nephew
Philip V Fithian
P. S. Please to remember me to the family, &c.
Thursday 9.
The morning haizy, no Wind, & very warm—I wrote a Letter to Uncle Samuel Fithian—After Dinner Mr Carter set out for Williamsburg—by him I sent to the Post-office at Hobbes-Hole, My Letters to Mr Hunter, Uncle Fithian, Miss Beatty. & Mr Peck—After School in the evening I had an agreeable walk with Mrs Carter in the Garden—
Fryday 10.
Cool but exceeding dry—Writing at my Lecture. Mrs Carter was to day sadly frighted with a Lizard, that lives under the House—After School, with Ben I wakked over to Mr Turburville's to gather Cheries, which are there in great plenty—Mrs Carter in the evening after our return, gave me a Lecture for taking Ben to Annapolis when I went last Home without a waiting-Man—Wrote at my Lecture til eleven. Ben sleeps at the Great-House in the absence of his Papa.