I have received your letter requesting to know whether I had formed an opinion on the case which was remanded to the circuit court of Pennsylvania. I regret that I had not formed one. It would give me pleasure to communicate it to you.

I congratulate you on the prospect of a full docket in Jersey & congratulate myself on the prospect of an empty one in North Carolina. The difference is that I come home as soon as the court in North Carolina rises or that you loiter away the whole time between the rising of the court in Jersey¹ & the sitting of that in Pennsylvania.

I called on Mr Blair the President of the Bible society who promised me to enquire into your accounts with the Bible society. I told him that you supposed yourself not to be a permanent member. I saw him again the other day & he told me that you were a permanent member & were in arrears for the years 1816, 1817, 1818 & 1819. I requested him to strike your name from the list & to give me the amount of your account, that you had placed money in my hands to discharge it. At the same time I told him that you were a member of the parent society & of one other branch. He thought it perfectly reasonable that you should retire from this.

I was so frozen on the 2d of april that I am scarcely thawed by the mild breezes of yesterday & to day; yet I set out tomorrow for the upper country. Farewell I am your