Outing . entries ofwind, weather and ships daily on one ragged leaf is what ap-pears to be the preliminary draft of a letter:Dear Polly—thes lines comes with MyLove to you. Hoping thes will find you inas good Health as they Leave me at thisTime, Blessed be God for so Great aMassey (mercy). Young Francis Boardman was equippedwith epistolary ammunition for all weathersand conditions, it would seem, for in an-other log of a hundred and fifty years ago,he carefully wrote on a leaf opposite hispersonal expense account:Madam: Your Late Behavour towards me, youare sensible cannot ha
Outing . entries ofwind, weather and ships daily on one ragged leaf is what ap-pears to be the preliminary draft of a letter:Dear Polly—thes lines comes with MyLove to you. Hoping thes will find you inas good Health as they Leave me at thisTime, Blessed be God for so Great aMassey (mercy). Young Francis Boardman was equippedwith epistolary ammunition for all weathersand conditions, it would seem, for in an-other log of a hundred and fifty years ago,he carefully wrote on a leaf opposite hispersonal expense account:Madam: Your Late Behavour towards me, youare sensible cannot have escaped my must own you was once the person ofwhom I could Not have formed such anOpinion. For my part, at present I freelyforgive you and only blame myself forputting so much confidence in a person soundeserving. I have now conquered mypashun so much, (though I must confess atfirst it was with great difficulty) that Inever think of you, nor I believe nevershall without despising the Name of a. OATA VQYAGETQ THE MABMNWAISLANDS BY WDJOMM HMWEIL FIRM OFFICEKcFTtm BARQpE LM Fac-simile of title page of a Salem log of the i8th century. person who dared to use me in so ungrate-ful a manner. I shall now conclude my-self, though badley used, not your Enemy. I suspect that Francis Boardman mayhave owned a copy of some early Com-plete Letter Writer, for on another pagehe begins but does not finish A Letterfrom One Sister to Another to Enquire ofHealth. Also he takes pains severaltimes to draft these dutiful but far fromnewsy lines: Honored Father and Mother—Theslines comes with my Deuty to you. Hop-ing They will find you in as good Healthas they Leave me at this Time. Blessedbe God for so Great a Massey—HonoredFather and Mother. In a log labeled From London TowardCadiz, Spain, in the good ship Vaughan,—Benj. Davis, Master—1767, Francis Boardman became mightily busy with hisquill and the season being spring, he beganto scrawl poetry between the leaves whichwere covered
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