Your letter of the 5th Inst. accompany'd by the Bond drawn by you as executed by Mr Ludwell Lee and Gerard Alexander was handed to me last evening, I highly approve of the arrangement you have made, it will no doubt be very advantageous to Mr A. as well as us— I am persuaded very few persons would have been at the Sale, in consequence of a report that the debt had been settled, and no Sale was to take place— Mr Alexander in his letter to me of yesterday begs that the 20th day of November may be made the day of Sale, and thinks it will be unnecessary to advirtize it in the Alexa. paper, he wishes he says to save that expence the Shepherdstown paper would perhaps be better. I shall attend at Rock Hall and make known the postponement of the Sale untill November & that public notice will be given of the day.

Will you have the goodness to forward the inclo<sed> $5 to my Overseer Charles Thomas & inform him it is my order that he should immediately send off his waggon to this place for a load of seed whe<mutilated> that my Overseer here has instructions to deliver it the $5 dollars is to pay the Waggoners expences on the road. I am Dr Sir truly and affectionately yours