Your Communication my friend I with great pleasure received a few days ago a private Convayance offers Me an Oppertunity of makeing you my thanks for it, and of sending you a few Yellow beet sead, it is a new species in our gardens and they are very delicate.

your very Obliging letter I received a few days agoe, and shall gratify my self of the friendly privilege you give me of seeing you and Mrs Washington at your House.

I shall leave this on the 10th as the weather is warm I shall travil sloely, with great respect to your self and Mrs Washington I remain with great Esteem & &

I have delayed makeing a reply to your friendly letter of the 14. supposing that your time was still Occupyed by your Juditial avocations.

     from the politeness that you made me when at your house at Mount Vernon, and the friendship that subsisted betwen your Uncle President Washington and my Hamilton I feel persuaded, had he out lived General Hamilton, he would have Aided me by Communications and papers in his possesion, that would be of great service to me, and from the above impression, I presume to make a request from you, that you, would let me, have such letters and papers, as will be of great valieu to me, you haveing long since had that Estimable work Compleated in rel

     Many thanks my friend for the letters forwarded to me by Judge Livingston, most of the drafts marked on my list I find in the Original Also to Shew how desirious my Hamilton was that these measures should be adopted that he believed would be of Service to the Country he drafted the famious speach that was so celebrated and delivered in the house of representitives by Mr Smith of South Carilina yourself and two or three others only know how much he did and accomplished for our Country but I trust a few years will give to the world the exertions he made I have heard of your haveing been