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...

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,

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...

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...

You did well to write to me before you commence the campaign of courts. our Lord Thurlow has broke up, & cleared out, much to the satisfaction of the whole bar. Tho’ I should not say it. To me he has ever been very civil & friendly: But had I known he intended to stick my name in the news...

I reached my Bachelor’s home on yesterday after a months visit to albemarle. But for inroads made upon my plans by Col. Nichola’s embarass’d & hopeless affairs I would have been with you at Shanandale. You are in the right touching the necessity, comfort, dignity, respectability, honor, &...

For your classical greetings on the return of xmas and the auspicious beginning of a new year I give you most humble & hearty thanks. That your money & beer are what may be called good things I do however reluctantly (as Serjeant Williams used to say) “candidly confess.” For that flower...

When you wrote yours of april 20th you little imagined that at the very time I was mounted on a large & warlike black moving with a lofty pace to Georgia with John Patterson to take possession of another el-dorado as full of promise as the first. Yet such was the fact. We moved by a pretty...