answer to your Requests, with my best wishes that it may be
of any service to the Purpose for which it was made--But
must rely upon it that Nothing I have written be made public
in my Name.[B] Wishing you long Life and many happy Days,

I am Yours, &c.
E.A. HOLYOKE.

P.S. I forgot to speak of my repose. When I began the
practice of Physick, I was so often call'd up soon after
retiring to Rest, that I found it most convenient to sit to
a late Hour, and thus acquired a Habit of sitting up late,
which necessarily occasioned my lying in bed to a late Hour
in the Morning--till 7 o'cl'k in Summer and 8 in Winter. My
Business was fatiguing and called for ample repose, and I
have always taken care to have a full proportion of Sleep,
which I suppose has contributed to my longevity.

_Recollections & Memorandums of Past Events._

The first thing that I entirely remember was the funeral of
Aunt Oulton, which was on July 18, 1732.

The first Aurora Borealis I ever saw, the Northern or rather
Northeast Sky appeared suffused by a dark blood-red colored
vapour, without any variety of different colored rays. I
have never since seen the like. This was about the year
1734. Northern lights were then a novelty, and excited great
wonder and terror among the vulgar.