Your letter of the 4 Inst is Just handed to me by your nephew— Mr Jno Washington: enclosing in— from Mr Dade, who no doubt informed you of my disposition to coopperate with you in any measure relative to the Jefferson Land, as far as I was authorized. He informs me that your Nephew B.C. Washington agrees to give $550 to which I have no hesitation in agreeng So far as I may be interested; he being restricted as Tenants usually am in the use of Timbar I hope you may Succeed in obtaining the Consent of the Legatees to a Compromise.