I recd yesterday afternoon your favor of the 28th may. i do not recollect during the whole of my Judicial life that I was ever applied to for an injunction to stay waste. I confess that until I read your letter and examined the cases you refer to, I had supposed that, if it were a case of irrepable mischief, the plf had only to state an apparently good title, & to verify it by affadavit, to entitle him to the interposition of a court of equity. But the case of Storm vs. Mann and the one from 6 vez.

     I hasten, my dear Sir, to answer your favor of the 20^th recd. yesterday.

     I have been frequently tempted to address you since I came to the City, but really I have had neither spirits or temper to render the employment a pleasant one. The conduct of certain men, in a certain place, has teased me more than I can easily describe to you, and the alternate hopes and fears which the accounts we have sometimes recd of the probable course which would be pursued there, have kept me in a state of excitement not the most pleasant in the world.

How goes it, my dear Judge? This inquiry I wd make in person, if I had not as much writing to do as will fully occupy my time ‘till my departure for Trenton. 

     If you can call upon me between this & wednesday it will confer a great pleasure upon yr friend.

     All my endeavours to find a pamphlet published many years ago, for Chief Justice Marshall have failed. it is entitled "Calm Observer." published during a period when the two great parties in the U.S. were highly excited, farmer Giles, the supposed, or perhaps acknowledged author. If you can procure it by purchase or loan, & forward it to the Chief Justice as soon as possible, he will acknowledge it as a singular favour. I am in haste, my dear Sir very sincerely & affectly yrs

     I now enclose you for the Countess a letter from Genl W.— It was addressed to myself, as might be expected, since it could be only by accident that I could have letters written with his own hand to any other person. I hope you will recieve it in time. In 4 days from this I commence my Journey to Phila. Farewell & believe to be with great regard—sincerely yr

     I have never, that I can recollect, refused to comply with a request similar to that contained in your letter of the 8th inst. in behalf of the Countess charlotte, and if I had been heretofore in the habit of doing so, I should most certainly make an exception in your favor, and upon such an occasion.

     I have waited for the performance of your kind promise to make me a visit until my patience is exhausted. I can practice forbearance no longer, and now express the hope I sincerely entertain that you will come down as early in this month as you can. I shall be happy to see any friend of yours who will do me the favor to accompany you. Mr Sergeant, I presume is far, far at Sea. Inform me on what day I may expect you that I may not be out of the way.

     Having seen the death of Doctr Barton announced in the public prints & thinking it likely that some changs may take place in the Medical School at Phila., by which a Professor of Chemistry may be to be chosen, I have, after some hesitation, determined to use with you the freedom of a friend by mentioning our respectable fellow Citizen Robt Hare to fill that chair, should a vacancy be created.