Elizabeth Hunt letter to Thomas Rotch, Black Point 1st mo 17th 1819

               
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                      Black Point 1st mo 17th  1819
    Dear friends T & C Routch
                  I have long desired to answer your
  acceptable letter which I received shortly after my
  return home.  To be remembered by you was grateful
             in
  as well as ^one which my dear Mary informs me
  she has received.  The remembrance of you has
  often revived my drooping spirit - some previous
  opportunities but more particularly that while un
  der your roof, when light broke out of a cloud
  retire into its own being and left a sweet
  savour - I must now touch upon a tender stirring
  which has prevented my writing because it opens
  a wound which is still fresh - thy letter to my
  dear deceased father was cordially received by him
  he oft talked of answering it, said he loved thee
  when a child and thy letter seem'd to brighten
  the chain - when I returned home I found him
  weak and feeble occasioned by a very severe fit of
  illness he had in my absence - His spirit would
  often seem revived on hearing me talk about
  you we were mutually thankful being permitted
  again to meet and sometimes when we have been
  enjoying the favour he would remind us his
  time would not be long and would say "I wish
  my dear children would be more resigned to part
  with me" - He would often speak of his dissolu=
  =tion about the middle of the 7th month
  last which put an end to his exercised pilgrim
  =age no cloud attended his setting sun - his close
  was peaceful - his understanding chear - often saying