I thank you for your letter inclosing two others. I should have written to you earlier but have not even yet been to Albemarle, nor seen Mr Jefn. I am however resolved on continuing at the bar: and shall open the debate on the 20th Jany. if my health permit. I am recovering my strength, slowly to...

I take it as rather scandalous in you not to have written to me more than once. You ask me how a man of my discretion, came in such a Ship, with such a Capt. &c. &c. Why Sir, the Ship is excellent, else it had never braved the billows of the Br. Channel—a rougher sea never rolled in...

The time for my departure is now so near at hand, that I begin to despair of seeing you in England, which I was very desirous to do. The more so, because I fear you did not receive a letter I wrote you from Cambridge, the very day I I left London, in answer to your note sent to the Tavistock,...

I returned from Albemarle on the 11th and found your letter of 27th april waiting me. I deplored sincerely, that your visit to Albemarle was not in May instead of June—You cannot I fear prolong (not defer) it, ’till the last of July. You are right, take Mrs Carr to the White Sulphur; even on the...

When I returned from albemarle the day before yesterday, I found your letter waiting me. I thank you for it, and as I shall have but a few hours to delay on the journey I shall go from Norfolk to Baltimore directly. and I hope find you there on tuesday morning, for I leave this on sunday for...

I went yesterday to the house of Commons, returned late, hungry & fatigued, and never heard of your note without date, ’till this morning, on the instant of my departure. I had locked up the paper in my trunk, & English coaches no more than tides, wait for any one. I will keep it with the...

I was so busy on Saturday I could not go to seek you— I did not know you had come, & here I am on my way far from you without shaking your hand—Keep my council, and tell no one where I am gone, for what, or any thing about the matter—Say I am gone north, which is true,

You are in the right when you say man is not wholly a mean and selfish being. your friendship to me is a practical proof. Indeed I can say of you, as Louis 16th did to Dupont, “you are ever at hand when there is need of you.” Never did I more require the balm of your cordiality. The death of poor...

I have just received your letter apprizing me of your resolution of being in Albemarle soon after the 20th. The more the pity that I cannot join you. Mrs. R. left Richmond near a week ago and is now at Tuckahoe. She was much admired as she ever will be where she is seen. I was at many parties...

The return of our well beloved friend Lee (who is the same excellent man he ever was) affords me too good an opportinity to be missed, of writing to you. Indeed as he is an officer of the court, I should fear an attachment, if I were not to send in, not my adhesion—but my warmest affections. You...