I seemed to stop worrying about money.

With such free pleasures I found I could not worry.

Every day God gives me greater delight in good things, in beauty, and in every simple exercise and amusement." Twice during these difficult days he went to visit Gouverneur Morris and his wife at Aiken, and after Richard's death his old friend wrote of the first of these visits: "It was in our little house at Aiken, in South Carolina, that he was with us most and we learned to know him best, and that he and I became dependent upon each other in many ways.

"Events, into which I shall not go, had made his life very difficult and complicated.

And he who had given so much friendship to so many people needed a little friendship in return, and perhaps, too, he needed for a time to live in a house whose master and mistress loved each other, and where there were children.