[draft] When our feelings are exquisit[e] it is difficult to express them - and much more so the person by whom they are excited. of this I dare say your sensibility has frequently convinced you - and to this cause only I hope my Dear Genl. you will ascribe my long silence - for be assured Sir you have scarcely been out of my Mind an hour since Mr Miller returned from New York. My knowledge of your character has always made me admire you, the friendship which subsisted between you and my beloved and ever Lemented [sic] husband created a tender [2] sentiment - but your goodness particularly to my little Boy - has filled me with the most lively gratitude - which would not however pain me if I had any other Method of shewing you my feelings than by profession only - I am disgusted with professions - the world make use of them - alas I know too well how fallaciously[.] pardon therefore this seeming negligence - I have been waiting anxiously for the promised pleasure of seeing you till at length it has become necessary for me to take a Jorney [sic] to Newport which I had defered on that account - I hope however I shall either see you there or return soon enough to meet you here[.] [3] be please[d] to present me respectfully and affectionately to Mrs. Knox and give her for me a thousand thanks for her goodness to George I am my Dear Genl More than I can express your obliged friend and Sevt. C Greene Wethersfield June 15th 1788 - General Knox [address leaf] The honorble General Knox Minister at War New York - [docket] 15th June 1788 Mrs Greene -