Dover. 10^ber the 18^th 1784

My Dear Little Girl will be glad to hear that we are arrived safe
at Dover. We were so lucky as to Meet with Cap^t Sayer at Calai
& so made our voyage again with him. we set off from [illeg]
{^^yesterday} at 3 in the afternoon & got here before eight. I never was so
sick in any Pasage as in this. Molly & the men were also very
ill. but S^r W^m was only sick once. We are upon the whole very
fortunate to be got here so safe for the time of the year is
very hazardous for sea voyages let them be ever so short, and
there has lately been {^^some} very disagreable Accidents. I write this
from Mr Joynes York House at Dover where you were enquired after
as well as on board of the ship & at Desseins. Their intelligence
will flatter you Certainly! however the Remembrance of any honest
Person is acceptable to hear of. Lady Pembroke & her Niece Miss
Beauclerk set off at the same as us & got into the same {^^time} They
Lodgd with us at Dessins, but here they are at another Inn. We
shall be tomorrow night at London. My Little dear Ned will not
be sorry for it. Here in the papers that D^r Johnson (who wrote
the dictionary, the Rambler, the poets Lives &c) is Dead. They have
translated the marriage de Figaro into English & it has been
acted at London: adieu my Dear, I am rather in a hurry at present, & must
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Dover. 10^ber the 18^th 1784

My Dear Little Girl will be glad to hear that we are arrived safe
at Dover. We were so lucky as to Meet with Cap^t Sayer at Calais
& so made our voyage again with him. we set off from [illeg]
{^^yesterday} at 3 in the afternoon & got here before eight. I never was so
sick in any Passage as in this. Molly & the men were also very
ill. but S^r W^m was only sick once. We are upon the whole very
fortunate to be got here so safe for the time of the year is
very hazardous for sea voyages let them be ever so short, and
there has lately been {^^some} very disagreeable Accidents. I write this
from Mr Joynes York House at Dover where you were enquired after
as well as on board of the ship & at Desseins. Their intelligence
will flatter you Certainly! however the Remembrance of any honest
Person is acceptable to hear of. Lady Pembroke & her Niece Miss
Beauclerk set off at the same as us & got into the same {^^time} They
Lodged with us at Dessins, but here they are at another Inn. We
shall be tomorrow night at London. My Little dear Ned will not
be sorry for it. Here in the papers that D^r Johnson (who wrote
the dictionary, the Rambler, the poets Lives &c) is Dead. They have
translated the marriage de Figaro into English & it has been
acted at London: adieu my Dear, I am rather in a hurry at present, & must
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