I wrote you by Mr McClure as Merchant of Baltimore about three weeks past in which letter I think I inform'd you that I return'd from Berkley abt the 21st of decr. the last day of that Month we came upon a visit to Mt Clear and this place, and if the weather would have permited we intended a visit to our Fredericksbg Friends— but the whole time has been one continued seen of Frost & Snow, so that your mama has not been able to return home, I have been down once by heading Nomony and travelling two days through the Snow to accomplish the Journey— about 12 days past Mr Nevison brought down three letters of yours from Fredericksbg one to yr Mama and two directed to me, one of them dated 4 Octr 1783 the other 30th decr as I have seen you since the date of the first I shall say nothing in answer to it— in the last you mention if you retain the sales of three hhds you shall want you think abt £60 P.C. to clair you out, I would have you retain the money for all four, but transmit the Acct of the Neet proceeds of Nat: Butlers hhds, and yr Aunt Smiths hhd stated by Mr Hollinsworth that each of them may have credit here from me— I will send forward the remittance you desire as soon as possable but in what or through what Channel is impossable for me at this time to say, the weather is such that it is impossable to go about to execute any scheme of Business— even at this moment it is snowing, and before it began the ground was well covered— we have an Acct here it comes by a Negro who says he has been a fortnight on the road comeing from Berkley, that the Snow there is from Six to eight feet deep, large quantities of the smaller kinds of Stock smothered in the Snow, many lives lost in attempts to pass from one plantation to another—and in many instances the people have been obliged to cut away the snow and make a way to relieve people even in there houses— this Acct I make no doubt is a good deal exagerated, but there situation must be bad I make no doubt— as soon as I can possably suppose the roads and Runs passable I shall send up and then the Books you sent by Doctr Thomson for your Brothers will be forwarded to them, indeed by the return of this messenger is my only chance to get Cash for my Taxes— the Letter I wrote you by Mr McClure I make no doubt you have recd before this, or will certainly recieve, as he assured me he would put it into the Post Office at Baltimore on his return— I mentioned in that the rect of yr Letter by Doctr Thomson, and¹ my thoughts about the time of yr returning— I am uneasy at the distant prospect there seams to be of obtaining the Books you write for, would it not be possable to obtain a part of them, the most necessary, and most immediately wanting in Philadelphia upon tolorable reasonable terms, by application to Mr Bell the Bookseller, or Mr Wilson— I just mention this that you may make the inquiry and inform me— I shall send up to Fredericksbg as soon as the weather moderates and the Post can travel in hopes we may get some letters from you, as nothing makes us happyer then to hear from you frequently— this Letter goes by Mr Nevison who is to set of for Philadelphia as soon as he can cross Potomack so that I flatter myself you will recieve it from his own hands— I am my dear Bushrod Your very Aff. Father