I recd your favr by Gen. Lee a day or two ago, and have now only time to acknowledge it and to assure you of my best attention to its contents, so as to carry your wishes into effect. Present me if you please to the Ladies & believe me most sincerely Your affec. & obedt sevrt¹

Since I came to Virginia, I have generally been so buryed in Retirement as to want opportunities of writing to Philadelphia— You Sir, are the first, to whom my respects are due; permit me to return you my sincere thanks and acknowledgment for the attention and politeness with which you favored me whilst under your care, but most of all for those advantages which I derived from your friendly and instructive Communications in the line of my Studies— Favors which associate in them both utility and complaisance make the deepest impressions on my heart, and fill it with affecti