I have put off answering your letter of the 30th ulto till now because at the time I received it I could have given you no information concerning your affairs that would have afforded you pleasure. I am happy, now to state, that all your people at Union farm are well, your Rye sound, and we are having complete shelters made in the manner you directed. The ten bushels of timothy seed from Fauquire, which Major Innes procured for you, have been received and will be taken care of. I shall direct Gibbs to commence getting in corn as soon as his shelters are made, for there is always some loss in the field and it will give you the advantage of putting up your hogs early & feedig them on the short-corn. I think there will be from 40 to 45 better hogs than you have ever had.

    There has been more sickness at Mt Vernon since you left home than at any time before, since the commmencement of the present sickly season; yet the Rye is put in very handsomely and the othr work long in that you directed to be accomplished. I shall send West up for your trunks at M. Herber[t]'s tomorrow. I have bargained with Mr Johnson to hand ten cords of wood to Mr Herbert at $2 pr cord. which is 25 cents lower than you pd Mr Callard last winter and lower than any other person would agree to do it for. Mr Johnson wishes to purchase 50 cords standing for which he is willing to pay 9/— pr corr—3/— which he would have to pay for cutting & cording &c. $2 for hawling would bring it to $4—the highest price that wood sold for at any time last winter, and 62 1/2 centes more than it will command at this time. I promised to write to you on this subject & give Mr J. an answer in five or six days. I shall call on Monroe tomorrow & insist upon his completing his contract. Your corn looks better since the fodder was gathered than I expected it would & much bettr than the generality of crops in this neighbourhood. I think, upon the whole, the crops, as far as I can judge, are not very much above an average crop for the last ten years, & those who are now contrcting to sell for 9/— a barrel will regret their precipitance. I urged my brother in law, Mr W. Spotswood, to answer your circular; but he declined it without assigning a reason. I presume he is under an impression that his father's estate will be brought in debt to the Genl's estate, 'tho surely his withholding his answer will not free his father's obligation, nor ought he to desire it if it be just.

    My brother has just return from Jefferson & I shall write to him for a copy of my father's will for Mr Robert J. Taylor today.

    We all join in sincere love to my dear aunt & your self. I am dear uncle your truly affe. neph.