In answer to your letter, I beg leave to assure you that neither from the papers of Genl Washington, nor from any conversation with him during his life, had I cause to suspect that he considered your father as having been unfriendly to him at any period during the revolutionary war or afterwards. When my father sent me to Philadelphia in the wither of 81-2 with a view to study of the law, the General happened to be in this city, and kindly undertook to superintend the necessary arrangements for my establishment. Altho' your father required from his students a much higher fee than was usually paid to the other gentlemen of the law, the General unhesitatingly overrule[d] the intention I expressed to him of entering some other office on account of that difference, by arguments strongly indicating the high opinion he entertained of your father. I may add further, that during the two or three years that I remained in your father's office, I never heard a suggestion from any person that he was otherwise than a sincere friend to the General & this has always been my own opinion. I am very respectfully & sincerely