I intended to have made Report, not of the Doings but of the Nullities of the Circuit Court; but I have been busy in other Matters, & added to other Concerns, I have been sick, with my old Tormentor the Vertigo. A Bleeding I have had. A Cupping in Addition, will give him his Quietus, Why dont you build, as you have long threatned, at some Place distant from Mount Vernon? which every body says, venerable as it is, is unhealthy? I hope you are now staunch & seaworthy; & the better for staying at Home, in Port.

    I think I mentioned to Mr Dallas in April last, that you were engaged in preparing for publication reports of the decisions in the Supreme Court since the removal of the Govt. to Washington, and regretted that there would be a chasm between his last volume & your work unless he would fill it up. – He said that he should not publish those cases, but would with pleasure furnish you with his notes of them.