Enclosed I send you two orders— viz.— one upon Gen. Philip Stuart for $195 and one upon Hon. G. C. Washington for $110, which I beg you to receive in part payment of the claim you have preferred against me. I hope you will wait a little longer for the balance, I will send it as soon as it is convenient, the recent afflictions in my family, and my own infirmities have so deranged my affairs that I am compelled to ask this indulgence.