Heavy and painful oppressions of the head, and other disagreeable sensations often trouble me.

I am determined therefore to employ some person who shall ease me of the _drudgery_ of this business.

At any rate, if the whole of it is thereby suspended, I am determined to use exercise.

My private affairs also require infinitely more attention than I have given, or can give them, under present circumstances.

They can no longer be neglected without involving my ruin." It was some time after the date of this letter before he could introduce into his family a young gentleman, whose education and manners enabled him to fill the station of a private secretary and of a friend.
This multiplicity of private avocations could not entirely withdraw the mind of Washington from objects tending to promote and secure the public happiness.