Your seed barley has been received today and we shall commence sowing it tomorrow; and if the weather should be favorable can get it in the ground in five days. The Rye is all up & looks as well as could be expected. There will be forty or fifty barrels of corn to shuck tomorrow night. I fear you will not make more than one hundred and fifty barrels and therefore advised in one of my late letters that you should buy twenty or thirty barrels at $2 pr barrel to be delivered at your farm to be paid for after your return. If you wish it I can engage it on those terms. Although I have engaged at least twenty free hands at different times to grub your new ground they have all disappointed me and I now begin to despair of having the work done in that way, 'tho I will try again. Rodgers will be able to do but little at it until the corn is all lifted.

     West has hung new blinds to your port windows & painted them & has put a new top to your portico. The small drawing room has been plastered & West thinks you had better put off painting it 'till the walls get more seasoned or the paint will blister. We will go for the seed you sent from Philad. tomorrow & we will immediately put it in. The land has been once rolled & he wishes to know if you will have it rolled again after the seed are sowed. Your answer on this subject may come in time. New sills have been put under the sheds at the U. Farm house but not underpinned for want of bricks.— West & Rodgers have frequently enquired if you have re<mutilated> the checks for them that they got me to write for.

     It will take me a week to finish my own seeding. My corn is good. I have employed a man to repair my overseer's house into which he will move as soon as it is done.

     I have just received a very satisfactory letter from my dear Spotswood at Port Mahon. He is well & pleased with his situation. He requests to be often remembered to you & Aunt. Please also give my sincere love to her & believe me your truly Affe. Neph.