I have not heard from you since your letter informing me that you had discharged your juries in Philadelphia, & cannot help being a little apprehensive that your health is not so firm as I could wish it to be. I hope my fears will soon be removed.

I have finished the perusal of the letters in my possession & want only for three of 1787 to arrange the whole in volumes for publication. They will then be transmitted to you for ultimate revisal. I find very few letters after 1791, and scarcely any of the General Washington retired from the Presidency.

I am now employed in the court at this place, but it is a lazy term & seldom furnishes much employment for the Judge. Other courts in which the lawyers feel more interest are in session, & they neglect me. A question which is to me new if not difficult was made on saturday, & I should like to know whether it has ever been raised before you. In a suit against a surety of one of the persons who had received public money. an objection was made to the admissibility of the copies from the books of the treasury department, it being alleged that the law applied to the principal only. Its terms give some continuance to the objection, but I did not think there was much in it. I should however like to hear whether the same objection has been taken elsewhere. With the best wishes for your health & with affectionate esteem I am dear sir your