I should have answered your letter of the 15th of feby much sooner if I had not expected that a meeting of the legatees would take place in the course of the summer, when I should have an opportunity of taking¹ their opinion as to the further delay you had requested.² Altho I strongly wished to afford you every indulgence in my power, yet as many of the legatees have never recd any part of the estate, I thought it but right that they at least shd be consulted.