Your letter dated in September came lately to my hands after having made a circuitous rout through many distant post offices as appears from the endorsements on it.

     I must again beg the favor of you to get the enclosed note discounted for me at the bank. I expect to have the pleasure of seeing you in the course of four or five days when I can give you the necessary draft on the Cashier of the bank of the U.S.

     I send to town today principally on account of the order on the Cashier of the Bank, which I omitted to send you sooner— It is now enclosed.

     Finding it necessary to obtain a remittance from home, and not wishing if it can be avoided to trust bank notes by post, I have taken the liberty to enclose you a check on the bank for $200 which I presume is considerably within the sum to my credit there, and if you can procure a bill on Phila, at sight, and such as will certainly be paid, I will thank you to send me such a one—if such cannot be obtained, I should prefer two post notes for the amount.

I returned home two or three days ago, after an absence of more than 3 months, when I had the pleasure to recieve from the post office your very friendly and interesting letter of the 2d Septr— For your kind & affectionate wishes for my health I am sincerely grateful to you, as I am for some other expressions which I owe chiefly to your indulgence & partiality. my health is now, thank God, as good as it has been for some years past.

As Mr Sparks will probably leave this in a few days for Boston, I have determined, altho but half settled at home after an absence of 4 or 5 months, to prepare my letter to you that it may be ready for him to take on. The tea cause employed so great a part of the court at Phila. that few others could be tried before the Session came to a close.

     Enclosed you have Thos Oliver’s (of Dumfries) Note pa<i>d to Doctor Gerardus Clarkson and dated Philada June 5th 1784, where th<e> interest of Money is C$PRCt— Also a Lre to you and nine Dollars in bank Notes from Saml Clarkson one of the Administrators to the afore. <Ger>ardus his father now deceased.

Since the date of my last letter to you I have been led to a more critical examination of the question which arises in the case of the Post master general vs Reeder viz if the plea offers no legal bar to the action what Judgment is to be rendered? than I had before taken, and the difficulties which attend it, instead of being cleared away, have thickened upon me, so that I feel more at a loss than I ever was in my life upon any other question to come to a satisfactory conclusion.

In the midst of my preparations for my Journey to the mountains, on my way to Phila., I set down to inform you that I, this morning, sent up the demijohn of wine, properly Cased, to A. C. Cazenove & Co. Alexandria, to be forwarded by them to Mr Cazenove of Boston for you, from whom you will hear after its arrival.

Your favor of the 25th inst., recd today, induces me to do immediately what I had mentally arranged to do after my return from Trenton—answer your interesting letter of the 4th July. But first allow me to excuse myself from the censure to which I am apparently obnoxious for having postponed the performance of this duty to this late day. I took that letter out of the office in Alexa.