_Piscataqua, March 6, 1745._
_My very dear, dear J._
THIS comes by Captain _Darling_. I hear from _Boston_, a bookseller has got the books you sent over. I have sent a letter to Doctor _C――――_, with my answer to _Harvard_ college, which I would have you print, with their testimony, (which is an original:) and my answer to the second part of the observation and remarks upon the charge of the Bishop of _L――――_. May JESUS give them his blessing. I would have them printed so as to be sold cheap: you may collect or print them severally as you will. I cannot yet get time to prepare my sermons, or the other part of my life, for the press. I am writing another _New-England_ journal, which I will send when I leave it; when that will be, I know not. I expect Mr. _Habersham_ every hour. _W―――― N――――_ and _J――――_ are got safe to _Charles-Town_. I heard from friends there last week. _America_, I am afraid, begins to be too dear to me. The LORD smiles upon me and mine, and makes us very happy in himself, and happy in one another. Here is a very large field of action. A very fine and effectual door is opened; my bodily strength is recovered, and my soul more than ever in love with a crucified JESUS. I could write more to you and other dear friends, but if I do, I shall neglect things of a more public and immediate concern; neither can my dear wife write, because she is fully employed in copying my letters. However, we do not forget our dear _London_ and _English_ friends. We pray for them often, and sometimes cannot help wishing some more may come over into this delightful wilderness; it is a fruitful field. JESUS waters it with his blessings. We expect sister _W――――_. Here are wars and rumours of wars, on this, as well as your side of the water. But JESUS’s disciples may be at peace. O that this may find thy dear heart quite swallowed up in his amazing love! Be pleased to remember us most tenderly to _all_, and lose no opportunity of sending a line in any _American_ ships. So, my very dear dear man, I rest
Thy very affectionate happy friend, and servant in JESUS CHRIST, _G. W._