London, July 7, 1775.
I am glad for the
calm season at Salem;—could I have been safe on the same conditions I find my
friends permitted to reside at home, I would joyfully have accepted them.
However, this calm I fear cannot last long; for if Congress does not offer
terms that administration think they can in honour accept, I have good grounds
for saying the most vigorous measures will be pursued, which I fear will cause
the destruction of my country. There is an army of New Englanders here. My old
friend Mr. Sayre, a city banker, married to a lady of fortune, invited me to
dine with him in company with my friend Mr. Deberdt.
Let Mr. and Mrs.
Cabot know that her niece Mrs. Copley,* with whom I dined yesterday at Mr. Bromfield's, Islington, is well, and expects her husband on his passage from
Italy.
* Lady of the great
artist.
SOURCE: George
Atkinson Ward, Journal and Letters of the Late Samuel Curwen, Judge of
Admiralty, etc., An American Refugee in England from 1775 to 1784, p. 31
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