your Letter of the 28th Ulto I have now before me & but for Mr Swans absence from the City would have been answered in due time.

A few days after the receipt of a Letter from you on the same subject Mr Lewis came to my house & when he paid Mrs Custis, he told me there would be a Balance coming to Mrs Peter— when I received your Letter I was not a little surprised to find I was a debtor.

Your Circular I have but just received owing to my Absence from Town, Otherwise it would have been answered in due time.

     The business it relates to you must be better capable in judging of, than I can be, therefore I leave it for you to act on, as you may think best for the parties concerned— I am Gentn your very Obt Servt