Your seed barley has been received today and we shall commence sowing it tomorrow; and if the weather should be favorable can get it in the ground in five days. The Rye is all up & looks as well as could be expected. There will be forty or fifty barrels of corn to shuck tomorrow night. I fear you will not make more than one hundred and fifty barrels and therefore advised in one of my late letters that you should buy twenty or thirty barrels at $2 pr barrel to be delivered at your farm to be paid for after your return.

     Your favor by Mr Allison has been received and its contents shall be strictly obser[ve]d. I can not say precisely at what time Jane & myself will be up but I am extremely anxious to get from this part of the country, and Doct. Mason thinks my health requires an immediate change of situation, & advises me to drink the waters of Painter's sulphur Spring near Winchester. I am becoming more debilitated daily. I fear I shall not be able to take my family to my brother's.

     My letter to you, before my last was directed to you in Jefferson, & my last w<as> to the post-office the day yours of the 26th Sept was received. In each of my two last letters I acknowledged the recpt. of your favors & the checks—viz one for $100 handed to <me> by Mr Cazenone & two from Jefferson, one <mutilated> & the other for $75— I also stated in my last letter, which I expect you have got by this, t<hat> the money had been applied.

    I have put off answering your letter of the 30th ulto till now because at the time I received it I could have given you no information concerning your affairs that would have afforded you pleasure. I am happy, now to state, that all your people at Union farm are well, your Rye sound, and we are having complete shelters made in the manner you directed. The ten bushels of timothy seed from Fauquire, which Major Innes procured for you, have been received and will be taken care of.