MARCH 6
It is not safe to live or die without love.
Letter, 10th August, 1775
If you go abroad, I would by no means advise you to go to France. That is no place to save expense; but it is the only place to make your sons coxcombs and your daughters coquettes. I cannot but think there is no country in Europe which would answer your design so well as Holland; and no place in Holland so well as Utrecht. It is within a day’s journey of Helvoetsluys, whence you go directly by the packet for England. It is a healthful and a pleasant city, and less expensive than almost any city in France. You may have more or less company as you please. There are schools for your children; and if you should choose it, a university for your sons; and I could recommend you to some valuable acquaintance.
to Robert Jones, 1784
