My letter to you, before my last was directed to you in Jefferson, & my last w<as> to the post-office the day yours of the 26th Sept was received. In each of my two last letters I acknowledged the recpt. of your favors & the checks—viz one for $100 handed to <me> by Mr Cazenone & two from Jefferson, one <mutilated> & the other for $75— I also stated in my last letter, which I expect you have got by this, t<hat> the money had been applied. I would <mutilated> capitulate that part of my letter if I did <mutilated> but too unwell to write more than an ans<wer> to your present favor, now before me.

     All my family, except Jane, are still ver<y> sick & I am laboring under a second at<tack> of bilious fever; but I think I am getting <mutilated> of the bile by repeated doses of calomel. I expect to finish getting in my corn today, but in order to do it I have been obliged to make people work sometimes when they were sick enough to be in bed. However, a little exercise made their medicine operate better. <mutilated> was here yesterday to set an order for some leather & thread & told me that he thought the people were getting better at Mt Vernon. Rodgers sent up then more ‘invalids’ last-night. There is more seeding done on your <f>arm I am told than on all the farms in the neighbourhood. All of Major Lewis's negroes are <mutilated>k & the overseer, & Cousin Lewis is very <si>ck in George Town.

     <mutilated> shall know if George has got to Alexa <mutilated>— I send this letter up & if he has not I will <sen>d a servant with a horse for him the next <da>y. Mr N. Scott is very sick in Washington <C>ity.

     I had thought of the very same plan <mutilated> <r>espect to the Mexican service for Spots<wood> that you suggest; and what a reproach <i>t will be upon the head of the department to suffer a youth of Spotswood's pretensions and recommended as he is to abandon his own country to seek employment & fame in another.

     Robt Scott has secured the <mutilated> at fort Washington & will commence business after next payday which is 1st Novr[.] He told me he could not have got it without the loan with which you were so good as <to> indulge him. I wish him a handsome <mutilated>port for his family & will enable him <to> educate his children.

     Mrs Rankins' health is not good[.] I expect her pecuniary affairs are rather worse. I see no immediate p<ros>pect for her getting to Washingotn, tho she talk<s> of going in the spring.

     Your directions about the children’s <mutilated> shall be attended to & I hope to be able to go to town on monday. My sincere love to my aunt & I am always Dr. uncle your truly obt. neph.