I recd your favr by Gen. Lee a day or two ago, and have now only time to acknowledge it and to assure you of my best attention to its contents, so as to carry your wishes into effect. Present me if you please to the Ladies & believe me most sincerely Your affec. & obedt sevrt¹

In answer to your letter, I beg leave to assure you that neither from the papers of Genl Washington, nor from any conversation with him during his life, had I cause to suspect that he considered your father as having been unfriendly to him at any period during the revolutionary war or afterwards. When my father sent me to Philadelphia in the wither of 81-2 with a view to study of the law, the General happened to be in this city, and kindly undertook to superintend the necessary arrangements for my establishment.