T. Bourke, Spicy Grove, [Jamaica], to [Ozias Humphry]
He fears that the ship containing Humphry's gift portrait of his son has been taken. He asks that Humphry complete another one, full-length, and that this time it must be paid for. He misses Humphry's company and urges him to order
Paine, Kirwardine [Carwadine] and Green to write to him.
"We have nothing but scenes of sickness and death around us". The country is full of yellow fever and the troops are dying "in shoals" at Hispaniola. He has been assured that the thermometer read 96 in the shade and suggests the ministry send salamanders to fight the campaign. He sees this as the second part of the tragedy first enacted in America.
He asks of Hamilton's welfare and recalls a beauty that was much dicsussed in the Piazza Coffee House [in Rome?].
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