It Is The More Vexatious, As We Are Daily Visited By
Your Eastern Neighbors, Who, Caring Nothing For You, Know Nothing Of
You, And Cannot Tell Me Whether McJoen's Or The Sopy Packet Is
Arrived.
If the latter is not over, there will be cause for ill boding
respecting Mr. Lanaudiere, who, I imagine, left the channel with the
wind that brought us out.
If the packet is on the way for Falmouth, get my letters into it for
Mr. Raphbrigh, it contains a bill for L300 sterling to enable him to
pay for what you order. You have no time to spare. A January mail
often meets with easterly winds off the English coast, that blows for
months, and we shall be mortified if you arrive before the necessary
supplies, which, to be in time, must come in the ships that leave
England in March or on the beginning of April.
I have found no house yet to my fancy. None large enough to be hired.
We shall want a drawing-room, a dining or eating-room, my library, our
bedroom, one for the girls, another for Hale and William, and another
for your house-keeper and hair-dresser. Moore and another man servant
will occupy the eight. And I doubt if there is such a house to be
hired in Quebec. To say nothing of quarters for the lower servants
who, I think must be negroes from New York as cheapest and least
likely to find difficulties. My Thomas's wages are 24 guineas and with
your three from England will put us to L100 sterling per annum.
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