I have received your letter respecting the wine & beg you to take no farther trouble about it than to request Mr Cazenove, if the wine comes by Alexandria, to send both pipes to me, & to direct the bills to be both presented to me.

I am just returned from an excursion I am regularly under the necessity of making into the country with Mrs Marshall to avoid the noisy festivities of the 4th of July, & am looking over the letters.

Do you not think it advisable to copy the letters of interest to all persons not in the army, as well as to the governors &c of States? I scarcely think that the letters to the Governors alone will make two volumes. Should you have more copies taken, I wish you would suggest to the copyist that he plays the devil by beginning almost every word with a capital. I set out at first with my knife to erase the capitals & to substitute the modest small letters which belong to the words, but found the task so laborious that I would really prefer copying over the whole again. There is not a single s. scarcely even in the middle of a word which is not a capital—and there are very few K’s E’s B’s Cs M’s D’s & W’s, to say nothing of the others but what claim the same privilege. I know it was usual to employ these great letters in many instances where small ones are now written; but it never was usual to begin every word adjective as well as substantive in this manner, & if the General’s letters appear so in the book, I am sure they must have been miscopied.

You have said nothing to me about any arrangement you may have made respecting the printing, nor about the 2d. ed. of the life &c your