I begin to think, Wilkes will
carry his Election for Sheriff; tho’though I am apt to believe, had
not a ministerial Letter appeared, which is now printed
in the papers, he would have lost it. The Ferment is great
in the City, but the poll will determine this Day or Monday.
The Copy of the Letter from abroad pleased me much;
but I could not see a Way to introduce the Contents of it properly into the
News-PapersNewspapers. Besides, considering the Times, we live in,
I feared, it might be turned into Ridicule. It would
have been throwing Pearls before Swine. Peggie was
not 1956 (1956) not long ago well &and hearty, tho’though I fear, poor Girl!
her Family does not think of her so much as they
ought to do.”