[Extract]
p Juno Capt Farrington

You may or may not have heard ere this shall reache you that the Sword of Civil War was drawn in the environs of Boston on the 19th April, there is no doubt of the fact but the Accounts which we have received are not clear . . . the New England Account will appear in the in closed paper perhaps you have a more perfect one ー if the Ministry will allow any thing like truth to be publishedー

the Committee here in which they have forced your Father to be Chairman are exerting their utmost abilities I hope for wise & good ends.ー