I recd a few days ago your favor of the 13th and have only to express to you the entire Satisfaction it has afforded me. The postponement until the middle of September can be of no material consequence, if no time is lost afterwards, which from your assurances will not, I am persuaded, take place. Mr Peters can, in the mean time, proceed with his volumes.

     I have read over all the cases in my note books to the end of the fall term of 1809, with some attention, and now enclose you some observations upon such of the cases as seemed to merit criticism. You will observe that the corrections which I have suggested are principally such as qualify expressions more general than it was safe to use, or tend to expunge dicta which were unecessary to the points decided, the correctness of which might be doubted.

     Soon after my return home from Phila., I copied into my note book all the written decisions which were delivered, & which constituted about two thirds of all the cases which were tried.

     I have Just read over the Case of Sperry vs. DE Ins. Co. & find it as all my notes of cases must necessarily be from the hurry in which they are made, extremely inaccurate in Style & in everything but substance. I trust therefore that you will consider my report of this as of all other cases nothing more than rough notes, to be corrected & reformed in your own way[.] If I did not calculate upon these corrections, I should not suffer copies to be taken until I could find time to transcribe then.