In order to complete the conquest which Mrs Washington has happily made in part over her Attachment to Laudanum, it will be proper for her to continue to lessen the dose of it gradually Until she ceases to take it altogether.

I beg your pardon for being so troublesome to you with my letters.

You have indeed misapprenhed me in supposing I intended publickly to defend myself agt the charges contained in genl Washingtons letter to govr Henry. Far from it. I had determined to submit to them in silence. To my family & friends only I intended to justify¹ myself.² Even this would have been painful, to me, for in doing so I shd not only have done violence to my present feelings, but to the habitual respect³ I have uniformly done to his illustrious character.

I am much obliged to your polite & friendly letter which I have just now received. I answer it thus promptly, to request the favor of you immediately to write to Mr Wayne to suppress the letter alluded to govr Henry, or at least the two paragraphs in it which I am accused of having acted on insinsere & inconsistent part towards the general. I mentioned the Reasons formerly, why it cannot be correct.¹ 

     I have this day learned that a letter¹ from me to Governor Henry of Virginia which was sent by him to Genl Washington with the General's Answer to it,² are to be printed in the history of his life. It is foreign to my wishes to hint at³ present at the State of the⁴ public mind towards General Washington towards the Close of the year 1777, & which events subsequent to that year, altered in his favor. I shall mention one passage only in his letter to Mr Henry⁵ in which there is an evident mistake.