In answer to your friendly letter of the 12 of Decr, I mentioned that this was not the country for my profession; and am every day more convinced of the necessity & importance to my interest, and to the highest object that can attract my attention in a temporal point of view of returning to that State where I met with encouragement in my profession, & great civility in my social intercourse with an enlighten & polished people.

     I feel desirous to resume my occupation agai<mutilated>h will be entered into with new energies & resolution, I trust; after having gained I hope some valuable information, & necessary experience from those I have seen, conversed & corresponded with—and from reading & serious reflection in my own mind—as it relates to my walk in life, & conduct towards mankind in general— & above all looking towards my eternal happiness; and lastly to my ultimate establishment in life: all of which subjects are reflected on with great anxiety, & accompanied with many unhappy feelings— which arise in my mind from the errors of my past life, & from my inability to carry into effect my proposed plan of returning to S: Carolina for the want of money, not having recd remittances as I expected from my agent there. My expences have been greater than I calculated—& my relations & friends in this part of the country who hold property cannot command money or are involved.

     These difficulties & this situation has influenced me to write to you so soon again—and has caused me to take a retrospective view of my past life, which appears to have been a checkered one; but cannot but believe that I have done as well as most young men, who have been more or less devoted to the world.

     It was my misfortune to lose at an early age a kind & affectionate Father; but it was my good fortune to be brought up by a good & pious Mother, aided with the advice of Uncl Wm Aylett, who stand high in my recollection for his many virtues. I was not born to the enjoyment of hereditory wealth as many were & my connections, (but a sufficiency to educate me respectably); my father being the younger son, & having a number of Children was the cause.

     After graduating in my profession— I left home, in search of employment— I persued my calling with zeal & with considerable attention: but I was fond of society, & entered into it without that experience in the ways of the world which is important to possess. I found it difficult to avoid dissipation in some degree, & to govern a lively disposition, & indulged too freely that vivacity & active spirit which is incompatible to recollection.

     Still with the good counsel of my friends the Mr Kinlock's, I was enabled to support myself by my profession genteelly amongst a refined society: but it is not reasonable to suppose considering the frailties I laboured under, that I could have accumilated any thing for exigencies, or misfortunes. Nevertheless I possess an invaluable consolation, having always adhered strictly to the advice I received from my parents, to do justice to all men, to respect my own Character, & that of my forefathers. And I have realized, I trust, of late, an inheritance which is more durable than wealth, in having seen the error of my ways, before it is too late I hope; & have acquired that which may give me comfort, content, & as much happiness as can be expected to follow the mortal vicissitudes of life: provided I can find a friend, who could interest themselves in my behalf at this time, & who would exult in seeing one triumph over the disadvantages of nature & of fortune—and to enable him to be placed in an eligible situation, so as to redeem by active exertion that which should lay the foundation of future usefulness & distinction.

     I trust, my Dr Sir, you will impute it to causes & impulses almost irresistible this intrusion of a person, who has only slight reasons to think that you will sympathize in his situation, knowing as he does the many calls you must necessarily have, placed as you are.

     I regret extremely being necessitated, (placed as I am) to recount to you my difficulties & to trouble you with this long statement, which I fear is uninteresting to you.

     But as I have determined to write to you on this subject I beg leave to make you still more acquainted with my affairs & designs.

     I have due me in the south on notes of hand about three hundred dols. & a Judgement for one thousand Dols. & 3 years Ints. against a Dr Paxton, obtain'd at Sumpter Court near Columbia S:C:. I have hopes of obtaining this the men are all good for the amounts.

     At this time I am without money—and wish to return to S: Carolina as soon as I can. I am desirous of locating myself either in Charleston or Augusta georgia. Both places are recommended to me at this time.

     My desire is to get the favour of you to advance me a sufficient sum of Money to travel on to the s.c: and if your liberality could extend so far as to enable me to provide some of the requisites for my commensing business it would be very desirable until I could collect my debts due: I would then remit you any money borrowed threw Merchants in Charleston to have cured numbers in Charleston s.c., at the same time under simular circumstances, & with simular attention.

     It is not to be expected of a human agent to promise to cure a single case, however mild, but I should hope to assist in curing many, & after that I would publish to the world a treatise on the Subject; with my experience to support it, & with living evidences to substantiate the authority. May Heaven grant success to those who are devoted to the happiness of Mankind.

     I cannot but believe, that if I could proceed on to Charleston in some measure under your patronage with letters from you to a few respectable & influential gentlemen there, with new energies & resolution<mutilated> piety before me, treating all persons with p<mutilated>ness, & with some degree of reserve; laying aside the frailties spoken of, & associating myself with the morally disposed & the pious— I might retrieve all my losses—that I might be content respected & ultimately happy. I am Dear Sir Your Most Obt affectionate hmble Sert