I have the pleasure of addressing to you this note, to serve as a memorandum of—what possibly in the multiplicity of more important engagements might for a time escape your recollection—the conversation we held and the promise your goodness induced you to make, touching biographical memoirs of Richard Henry Lee and the Honbe Chief Justice Marshall. If any thing could enhance the value of the articles themselves, it would be the pens that may prepare them, and the early period of time at which they may be recieved.