My Dear Cousin./

      I have not written to you since I came here,
because there really was nothing for me to communicate,
worth troubling you with -- I now take up the Pen
with great pleasure, having so good an occasion for it
as to beg you to accept my best Wishes and Congratulations
upon your Marriage -- My Father is writing to you, but
I would not commission him to remember me in the
kindest manner to you instead of writing myself, because,
although /as I said before/ I have nothing to communicate; I thought
/knowing your kind friendship for me,/ that you would rather
I should write./      We received Robert's Letter dated from
Clarges Street, and were very sorry to find by it that
your excellent Friend Mr: Glover, was gone to Bath on
account of his health. We were the more particularly sorry,

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because we knew it must vex you very much -- We hope
however that he will benefit by his excursion to Bath --
I wrote about a Week ago to Miss Glover, and directed my
Letter to Sunning-Hill, I hope it has reached her./
I will now conclude as my Mother wishes to add a few
Lines to you, and beg you to believe me, my dear Cousin
                             yours affectionately./
                                                         Jane Hamilton./

Although My Dear Mrs. Dickenson might justly think that all
our congratulations should have been expressed by one only of a family
knowing how much your leisure must at present be engrossed upon
the happy occasion, yet I should not have felt comfortable
had I commissioned any one to say for me how sincerely I partake
in the general Satisfaction with your other friends;
and I do it in this way as a postscript to my Daughters letter
hoping you will answer it in kind, without troubling yourself
with a separate Sheet; upon the same principle, I will trust

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to your supposing for me, that I feel every thing upon
the subject of your present and future happiness as if I
had detained you by the perusal of pages. I hope Mr. Hamilton
has told you how delighted Robert was with your Attention
to Him. He was indeed as perfectly Sensible of it as one should
suppose from the goodness of his Heart: But I fear you
will have a powerful Rival in Mr Dickenson with whom
he seems to be quite captivated, and gave us the whole history
of his Endeavours to Entertain and amuse him and how well he
succeeded. I beg My best Compliments to Mr Dickenson whose
acquaintance I shall now be doubly happy to improve
and remain My Dear Mrs. Dickenson, with the most regard,
your very faithful and obliged,
                                                         Humble- Servant
                                                         Rachel Hamilton

Teingmouth 27th June 1785.

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