I duly recd your letter mentioning the officits claimed by Mr Hooe against his first bond. Whether they are correct or not is more than I can say; but it was surely very officious and improper in him to settle demands against Mr T. & myself without our authority. It is calculated to introduce confusion not only as between Mr. Hooe and us, but between Mr. T. & myself. We are determined therefore to disallow all similar claims in future.

     I have been prevented by sickness from making an earlier acknowledgment of your letter of the 23d Ulto. covering all Hooes bonds to Mr Turner & my self except the first, payable on demand.

     Since my return home I recd your acceptable letter of the 20th April, informing me that you had brought our business with Hooe to a close, which, but for your energy on the occasion, would, I believe have long remained open.

     I have this moment recd your favor of the 27th, and am much disappointed, not that the money due by Mr Hooe was not forthcoming, but that he should postpone the execution of the mortgage. I hope however that both will be performed at the next Court, but particularly the latter, as I am anxious to have the business closed, & the necessity for further negotiations with him terminated. He is right in his representation that the price of the land was understood between us to be $3.33 1/3 & I wish You so to adjust it.

     My lawyer in the Court of Chancery writes me that no bond in Mr Lee's injunction was found amongst the papers in that Court, and unless one has been given, with security, as in other Cases, the Chancellor has decided that the injunction is of no avail to prevent an execution. You will much oblige me by informing me whether any has been filed in the Court where the Judgment was rendered? I am with great regard Dear Sir very sincerely yrs

     I was much disappointed at not finding, on my return to Alexa., a letter from you in answer to the one which I wrote you from Phila. Without knowing what are the boundaries of Yorkshire, as ascertained by the survey & the agreements with Hooe & Mitchel (if they have been concluded, as I trust they have) I cannot forward to you our deed to Hooe, which waits for nothing but a diagram of the land according to the boundaries by which it is to be granted.

     Mr Chs Ratcliffe was appointed last Autumn by Mr Turner & myself our attorney to Collect the rents due upon the Yorkshire farm, Wigwam and another smaller tract. Whether he has done so or not it is impossible for either of us to say, as he most pertinaciously declines answering any letter which either of us has written him on the Subject.

     After an absence of three months, I returned home the day before yesterday, and now avail myself of the first leisure moment to request an answer to the letter I wrote you just previous to my departure respecting the yorkshire farm land. This is to Mr Turner and myself a very interesting Subject, as Mr Hooe declines making any payments until a survey is made and the number of acres ascertained. In short every thing respecting our contract with him is, & must continue unsettled and confused 'till that is done.

     I must again trouble you upon the subject of the suit brought by Mr Swann in the Name of Genl Washingtons Exectrs vs. Ludwell Lee Exect. This Lee & to enquire whether the action is in as languishing a State as it was when you wrote me on the 22d Jany 1819. If it be so, I must beg the favor of you to mark your name to the suit and to hasten it on to a speedy trial, as I am Just closing our Exectrs accounts.