Agreably to Your kind Request I Return the Original Letters which You Have Been pleased to Intrust to me. this first Invoice by the Cadmus Captain Allyn, Under Cover to the president, Contains only the letters Re<mutilated>e to the Virginia Campaign, 1781, the others which are Not Yet Copied shall be forwarded by the Other packet.

     I Would Have Been Very Happy to Call Upon You in my Visit to Monticello and Montpellier, But We take our journey in the steam Boat to frederiksburg, and Will Return, I Believe, to the Seat of government By the Road Under the mountains, So as to Be arrived at Washington City on the 24th. it is Said the frigate Will Be Ready to Sail By the 1st September: it is therefore at the end of the month that We Will make our Mount Vernon and Woodlawn Visits; too short they Will Be to our Great Regret.

     I Would Before this time Have Called Upon You, Had I not Been Apprised You prefer Coming Here. This is my arrangement for the day; I Shall be at Home Untill Twelve than I must go to the old Congress Hall Thre Hours; Burgate Brown and the officers of the Army, and a Committee from Wilmington Have Announced their Visit betwen ten and Twelve; at Thre I Will Return Here to Wait for You, Unless You Have Come Before. I expect no Visits from thre to four.

Permit me to introduce to you general Bernard, an officer whose military merit, altho it Has no Superiors and few equals in His line, is still Surpassed By the liberal, Candid, and Unassuming disinterestedness of His temper. His Lady and family accompany Him. I much wish He may be Welcomed in the US Because I am sure that when he is known He will be Universally Beloved.

I Have not for a long time Had the pleasure to Hear from you But Hope the Restoration of peace Between the U.S. and G.B. will afford opportunities for a Correspondance I So much Value— the Consequences of the late changes in france with Respect to our British interloude are not yet known— they Cannot at Any Rate Hinder, under proper precautions, the precious Invite You Have been pleased to promise.

     Permit me to introduce to you, and through you to our friends, Mr Biderman Son to a very Respectable Gentleman for whom I Have long Since Entertained much attachment and Regard— I am Happy in the Conviction that a Letter of Recommendation from me does still insure a friendly Reception at Mount Vernon.

     I Have not Had, this long while, a letter from you, But my inquiries after you Have kept up a kind of Communication— the departure of a frigate affords me a More direct opportunity to advise you, and to Request an Answer By the dispatches which, no doubt, will Be Sent Early in the Spring— Every particular Respecting yourself and our friends will be very welcome.

     It ought to have been my fate to Introduce General Moreau to my paternal friend there to meet the Welcome adequate to his Worth. But since he can only visit the venerated Mansion, I know that you, my dear Sir, and all the family will have due feelings for the Circumstance of Receiving Moreau under the late Roof of Washington— Let me only add that, with much Regret not to be one of you in receiving him. I am very affectionately Yours.