I was very much delighted at recieving your last Letter; I began to fear that you had also blotted me from your remembrance. The reasons you assigned for your silence was entirely satisfactory; I know that business must be done, and that none requires a more devoted attention, than that in which you are engaged.

     It is with real pleasure that I acknowledge your agreable favor of the 10th Decr—such a friend and Correspondent is worth possessing; I may almost say, that you are the only one I have in the world; others I have had, but absence has weened me from their affections and Remembrance, and by this time, I suppose it is scarcely within the Memory of any in Philadelphia that such a creature as B— W— ever was there. Your solicitude my friend makes one exception and it is with delight, that I acknowledge it.