I recd your favor of the 22 May, and have endeavoured, but without success, to negotiate the orders with the bank in Alexandria where I do business. The difficulty arises from the kind of mony in which they are payable, the value of which cant be known here. Permit me to trespass upon your time by asking your advice as to the best mode I can adopt for managing this matter. Would it not be best for me to send the orders to some person in Norfolk, and to authorize him to sell the notes of Banks not in the state for what they are worth & to deposit the amount together with such of the notes to be received as are current in one of the Banks at Norfolk to my credit? and if this should be your opinion, will you have the goodness to name some fit person to undertake this business for a Commission, as I am a total stranger in Norfolk?

     I beg you to excuse the liberty I am taking and believe me to be with great respect Dear Sir yr mo. ob. srvt