How I wish I had skill to paint the picture of all this for my English friends! My heart is pained, as I look upon it, with the thought that after a few days I shall never see it more.
June 18.
To-morrow we embark for home.

Wrote a long letter to my dear brother and sister, and one to my cousins at York.

Mr.Richardson hath just left us, having come all the way from Newbury to the wedding.

The excellent Governor Broadstreet hath this morning sent to Lady Hale a handsome copy of his first wife's book, entitled "Several Poems by a Gentlewoman of New England," with these words on the blank page thereof, from Proverbs xxxi.

30, "A woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised," written in the Governor's own hand.