I observe this day, that the Millet, which you induced me to try this year, is heading very fast, altho it was sown only a few days before my return home. As soon as I discovered its forwardness, I searched all the books on farming, in my possession, that I might be prepared for the proper management of it when it shall be fit to cut. I can find nothing said respecting the time, or the mode of harvesting it—saving the seed, or curing the Stalk & leaves. I have not the 4th vol.

Your three letters of the 25th Jany, 6 & 22d february have been recd, but not duly, the first written having been detained at the Alexandria post office until three days ago, when it was forwarded to me. As to the one containing observations upon the case of Conn. vs. Penn., I must postpone an answer until I can look again over my notes, which I left at Mount Vernon, as also the opinion in extenso.

Your letter of the 5th has remained unanswerd to this late period, partly in consequence of a severe cold which confined me to my room, and prevented me from consulting with my brethren on the subject to which you referred, and partly on account of the interesting questions which have been discussed (amongst these, the validity of the state bankrupt laws) which have engaged my whole attention both in & out of Court, when my time has not been otherwise occupied.

The Session of the Supreme Court will terminate today, after a continuance of 54 days, during which time, we have disposed of about 66 causes, many of them difficult, & some greatly interesting to the Nation. I shall return to Mount Vernon without delay, and endeavour to hasten the preparations for my Northern Journey. The unusual length of the Session puts it totally out of my power to go to Trenton; and I fear that I shall not be able to get to Phila. before the 2d or 3d day of the Court.

     You will please credit me with the sum mentioned in the within Certificate, & as I shall have considerable transactions with your bank, at least until the sum I have subscribed to the C. & O. Canal Co. shall be paid, you will oblige me by sending me a small bank book with the entries in it to this time. I am very respectfully dear Sir yr mo. ob. Servt

In one of your letters enclosing the request of the bar that the Circuit Court might be adjourned, you speak of the first monday in January as the day mentioned by them and approved by you. But as the determination to adjourn was not positively fixed at that time, and no notice of it has appeared in any of the Phila. papers which have come to my hands, I think it necessary to ascertain at once the precise day; that is whether it is to be the 1st day, or the first monday.

I interrupt your agreeable Law Engagements with a Bagatelle. Our agricultural Society have desired me to review my little Book on Plaister of Paris, for Republication; as it [is] out of Print. I wish to add all the modern Facts I can procure, but find everybody lazy & uncommunicative. I have been 2 Years endeavouring to collect Facts out of Loudon County Virginia (as there must be some Balm in Gilead) but have hitherto failed. It is only when the Maggot bites, or to relieve Ennui, that I get at such Subjects.

Yesterday I selected out of a Neighbor's Flock, having none in my own fit for Transportation, a Number of Tunis Sheep, to be sent to S. Carolina by Mr Vaughan, for several Friends there. I set apart the best Ram & Ewe for you. The Ram was desired for the Carolinians, & would have been readily taken. I could have obtained a younger Ram—but of less Blood. I have been obliged to allow 40$ for the Ram; as he is rising 4 Years old; & fit for immediate Bussiness. The Ewe is at the usual Price of 25$.

     I en[c]lose two letters for your perusal and advice[.] the one from Diggs, the matter referd to, I have not the smallest recollection of, and am fully persuaded it is only a trick, upon a supposition that rather than such a matter should be brought into court the Executors will relinquish the claim, the Wheat charged to him & which he says was an exchange of seed and, delivered to Hyland Crow an overseer of the Genls must be false, Hyland Crow lived with the Genl in the year 1796 and left him in the fall of the same, at this time Mr P

 To erase from your Mind any Suspicions that I am indifferent as to your Concerns I am induced to break through an established Rule of never writing to a Gentlemam that does not correspond with Mr Powel. I thought your knowledge of what is proper & your Attachment to him would have rendered it unnecessary for me to give you any Intimations on such a Subject. I cannot ascribe your Silence to any other Cause than a misplaced Diffidence. Had you, attentively, read the Note you received by Govr. Morris this Explanation would have been altogether unnecessary.