The court which has just terminated has furnished some business for your Honors at Washington. I have had some new & intricate questions on one of which, that goes up to the Supreme court, I decided on reflection differently from my first impression.¹ That judgement will probably be reversed.

I have not been able to lay my hands on the papers you mention. I do not recollect more than a letter mentioning some claim through Genl. Oglethorpe & without knowing the name & the date of the letter it cannot be found without examining every bundle. The best mode of search will be by looking at Genl. Washingtons letters to foreigners, for he must have acknowledged the receipt of that addressed to him. I will attend to your request respecting the books & papers.

I forgot in the letter I wrote to you respecting General Washingtons letters to say that you have not sent me the package containing those I had copied. I have gone through those you sent me & think it will be necessary to go through them again, to separate all the pamphlets & arrange them in the order in which they are to be published. In doing this I must have those which were copied at this place for the purpose of giving them their proper place. It is desirable that you should send them as soon as you have a safe opportunity. I cannot read the christian name of the Mr Herbert to whose care I am to consign the trunks of papers. I have purchased the laws but have not had an opportunity to send them.

I am extremely anxious to hear about the 2d edition of the life. I have prepared it & will thank y<ou to> keep me informed respecting it. I am very desirous that it should be published, but it cannot I think be broken & cannot be comprized in less than four volumes unless I go again through the whole & change it essentially. Hereafter the Civil administration may be published separately to books. your