Deborah Fisher Wharton letter to Charity Rotch, Philadelphia,12th mo 3d 1816

              B-315-3  
				Philad  12th mo 3d  1816
		It would have been very grateful to hear agreeable
	intelligence from my dear Aunt and Uncle, after so long
			Through our channel,
	a period of silence,^and it was peculiarly so to have
	a letter addressed to myself-  We all feel so much
	interest in you, as to wish to hear, much more frequently
	than we do, of your welfare-  And if wishing availed
	any thing, you would, long before the present time,
        have shown your faces in our habitation- But though
        I have proved  that wishing is vain , I cannot help
        doing so, as well as hoping and almost believing, that
        we shall before long be gratified  [illegible]- To me it
        would be very grateful and, I doubt not, advantageous
        to have an opportunity of renewing my friendship and
        affection for you-  I say, renewing, because tho  it has most
        sincerely existed during so long an absence, I cannot doubt
        but those precious bands would be strengthened, by a
        more familiar interchange of sentiment than we can
        attain to, by communion of this sort, desirable as it is-
	Such a proof of my dear Uncle s remembrance of my
        sister, brother, and self, as his few lines contained, was
        too gratefully received to be the last subject mentioned
        here- and I will now proceed to answer his question
        my dear, only brother, will  be 16 years of age, if he