Duly estimating the importance of Mr Weems going off immediately to the Southward, that the opportunity might not be lost of meeting the legislatures of those states in Session, I sent for him to meet me here yesterday. To my request that he would commence his Journey immediately, he replied that he was ready at any moment and only awaited your answer to two propositions – the one, the renewal of his diurnal allowance, & the other, an agreement not to hold him responsible for broken setts. As to the first I was so well satisfied what your answer would be that I undertook to stipulate for it in your part. – The other appeared to be the result of an apprehension so fastidious, that I could did not hesitate to give it as my decided opinion that you could never have entertained an idea of burthening him with a loss of that Kind. If a subscriber after recieving one or two volumes & paying for them, becomes unable or unwilling to take & pay for the remaining volumes, such individual would be liable to you for the price of such other volumes, but certainly Mr Weems could not be, & it would always be in your power should such cases occur to compleat the Setts. Satisfied with this opinion, he has pledged himself to go forward in 4 or 5 days from this. Today I am employed in writing letters of introduction for him, and I confess my hopes are Sanguine that your interest will be greatly promoted by this Journey.

I will thank you to write me immediately, ratifying what I have done on the two points above stated, that I may send a letter after him to put his mind at ease. I am Dear Sir Yr mo. ob. Servt.