Accept my sincere thanks, my dear Sir, for Your address, which I have read with great interest. It has given me a clearer idea of the delicate and arduous duties of the Chief Magistrate of a large City than I before possessed, and has gratified the partiality in your favor which led me to anticipate a wise and honourable discharge of those duties under your administration.

     Hoping that you & Mrs Q. may long enjoy, with as little interruption as belongs to our condition on earth, the blessings of health, personally, and in your family. I am, with great regard very truly Yr faithful & obliged Servt