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LETTER LV.

I am extremely concerned to learn that you are so seriously
unwell. Take care of yourself, I pray. My own
health is far from being good, and I fear that my spirits are
yet worse. I enclosed your letter to your sister as soon as
I received it.

As there is little probability of the navigation being open
by that time, I would suggest whether, when you leave Philadelphia,
it would not be more advisable to come by the way
of Lancaster and York, to Baltimore: the distance is about
thirty miles farther, but the time nearly the same; and you
will have the advantage of seeing a new and more interesting
country.

God bless you, my dear boy. I am, with the sincerest regard,

Your friend and kinsman,

JOHN RANDOLPH, of Roanoke.

Remember me kindly to Tom Murray.

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I have heard from Dr. L., in answer to my last, enclosed
to you.