I wrote you some days ago describing the Situation of Mrs W. & myself, and expressing my anxiety (which I most sincerely felt & yet feel) to attend the Phila. Court, and my doubts whether it would be practicable. I am now distressed, (as well on account of the effect as of the cause) to inform you, that I altogether despair of being able to go forward. I am yet very weak myself, although I should risk the attempt to get on, if I had myself alone to attend to. But Mrs W. is still under the dominion of the fever & her strength is so prostrated that she can with difficulty move across her room. I dare not flatter myself that under the most favorable circumstances she can leave her room for a considerable time. What is to be done? The idea of losing this term, particularly as it is our long term, harrasses my mind very much— There may also be criminals to try— Were I alone to be exposed, I should propose an adjourned court to the winter; but I cannot hazard Mrs W. whose health is so delicate. If the lawyers could so arrange with the State Court, as to give us the long Session in the Spring, I should be less uneasy than I am, particularly if no great inconvenience will result on account of the Criminal cases, any of which however, if pressing, I hope you will dispose of. Do, my dearest Sir write something to console me & write quickly.

My head is so confused & my hand so unsteady that I scarcely know what I am writing. Adieu my dear Sir & believe me to be most truly Yr Affect. friend