I have a thousand excuses to beg for havingso long delayed thanking you my dear [.]Peggy¹for your agreable Letter, which beleive me I shouldnot have deferred doing, had not every momentof my time during the last five weeks been sofully employed in the neceſsary arrangementsfor my sisters Wedding, as to allow me no timeto devote either to you or myself. And now whatprovokes me more than any thing else is thatthe Match is broke off, and all my Labour thrownaway: Imagine how great the Diſsapointment mustbe to me, when you consider that after having