is our particular wish & entreaty that you would come to us as soon as you can. You have owedus a visit many long weeks. — I hope nothingwill make it inconvenient to M^r . Vernon, & praybring all my Grand Children, & your dear Neiceis included of course; I long to see her. — It has been a sad heavy winter hitherto, without Regi::nald, & seeing nobody from Churchill; I never found the season so dreary before, but this hap::py meeting will make us young again. — Frederica runs much in my thoughts, & when Reginald has recovered his usual good spirits,(as I trust he soon will,)¹ we will try to rob him of his heart once more, & I am full of hopesof seeing their hands joined at no great distance.

Y^r . affec: Mother

C. De Courcy.