Part 52 (1/2)
By-the-by, I took the liberty to erase the redundant _it_ before I showed the letter
I am extremely impatient for your farther account of mamma's health
The necessity of laudanu circuo, since which I have no account I a to the Senate Chamber, where I hope to meet a journal and letter Affectionately,
A BURR
TO HIS DAUGHTER THEODOSIA
Philadelphia, 8th January, 1794
Your two letters of Friday and Saturday caether by yesterday's mail, which did not arrive till near sunset Your letter of Friday was not put into the postoffice until Saturday afternoon You ht have as well kept it in your own hands till Monday eleven o'clock Since the receipt of these letters I have been three times to Doctor Rush to consult hiood fortune to find him, have written to him on the subject I shall undoubtedly procure an answer in the course of this day, and will forward it by to-, Miss Prissy, that you will be pleased to nale ”_unsuccessful effort_” which you have made to please me As to the letters and journals which you _did_ write, surely you have reason abundant to believe that they gave me pleasure; and how the deuse I am to be pleased with those you _did not_ write, and how an omission to write can be called an ”_effort_,” reenuity to disclose
You ihtly than any of the preceding Fifty-six lines sola was, I admit, _an effort_ worthy of yourself, and which I hope will be often repeated But pray, when you have got up to two hundred lines a lesson, why do you go back again to one hundred and twenty, and one hundred and twenty-five? You should strive never to diminish; but I suppose that _vis inertiae_, which is often so troublesome to you, does some times preponderate So it is now and then even with your
A BURR
Learn the difference between _then_ and _than_ You will soonest perceive it by translating them into Latin
Let me see how handsomely you can subscribe your name to your next letter, about this size,
A BURR
TO HIS DAUGHTER THEODOSIA
Philadelphia, 10th of January, 1794
I fear that you will iine that I have been inattentive to your last request about Dr Rush; but the truth is, I can get nothing satisfactory out of him He enumerates over to me all the articles which have been repeatedly tried, and soree with your maain try milk--a spoonful only at a time: another attempt, he thinks, should be made with porter, in some shape or other Sweet oil, ree with sto else Yet he says, and with show of reason, that these things depend so much on the taste, the habits of life, the peculiarity of constitution, that she and her attending physician can be the best, if not the only advisers It gives reat pleasure to learn that she is now better I shall write you again on Sunday, having always much to say to you
Adieu
A BURR
TO THEODOSIA
Philadelphia, 13th January, 1794
Your letter of the 9th, reeable surprise to me I had not dared even to hope for one until to-morrow In one instance, at least, an attempt to please et that piece of impudence
Doctor Rush says that he cannot conceive anireat object He approves much of the milk punch and chocolate The stomach must on no account be offended The intermission of the pills for a few days (not however for a whole week) he thinks not a its effects The quantity er, but the present dose is in his opinion sufficient; but after soht be useful