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 Title:  Letter to Angelica Schuyler Church (November 8, 1789) [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-ASChurchletters 
 Description: After taking leave of you on board of the Packet, I hastened home to sooth and console your sister.[1] I found her in bitter distress; though much recovered from the agony, in which she had been, by the kind cares of M.rs Bruce[2] and the Baron.[3] After composing her by a flattering picture of your prospects for the voyage and a strong infusion of hope, that she had not taken a last farewell of you; The Baron little Phillip[4] and myself, with her consent, walked down to the Battery, where with aching hearts and anxious eyes we saw your vessel, in full sail, swiftly bearing our loved friend from our embraces. Imagine what we felt. We gazed, we sighed, we wept; and casting "many a lingering longing look behind" returned home to give scope to our sorrows, and mingle without restraint, our tears and our regrets. The good Baron has more than ever rivetted himself in my affection : to observe his unaffected solicitude and see his old eyes brimful of sympathy has something in it that won my whole soul and filled me with more than usual complacency for human nature. Amiable Angelica! how much you are formed to endear yourself to every good heart. How deeply you have rooted yourself in the affections of your friends on this side the Atlantic! Some of us are and must continue inconsolable for your absence.
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