Your letter of the 26th Jany was delivered to me by Mr Just. Story & I owe you an apology for the delay which has taken place in answering it. The truth is that at the living under the same roof the important cases which the Judges have had to examine & discuss in conference diverted the attention of the C. Justice & myself from the subject insomuch that it is but lately that we had an opportunity of conversing upon it.

Not knowing the address of Mr Rosa, I take the liberty to send the enclosed letter to you, & to request the favor of you to give it its proper direction & then to put it into the post office. I am with great regard dear sir yrs very sincerely

     I trouble you with this letter merely to request that you will let nothing prevent you from attending the Court in Alexa. on friday where I hope to have the pleasure of meeting you. Believe me sincerely & affectly yrs

     Having sold Laurel Grove & recieved in Cash one half of the purchase money, I have it in my power, & am ready at any moment to pay a moiety of the Judgment which you recovered against my nephew. I presume you would wish it paid at once to Mr Barnett, & if so I will make the remittance to him as soon as I receive your directions to do so.

     Since my return from Phila. I recd your letter of the 24 April— I have this day written to Mr Morson requesting him to pay Mr Bernard the sum you mention, and as I have no chance to recieve the residue due from Mr M. until Bernards encumbrance is fully discharged, I trust that you will be enabled to give me some assurances that this will speedily be accomplished.

I take the liberty of enquiring whether the letter I wrote you under date of the 12th July last was received? And of asking the favor of an answer to it. I am induced to give you this trouble in consequence of the encreasing difficulties to which Mr Bernards mortgage, &; Mr Morson's refusal on that account to pay off his bonds, expose me. In particular I would state the case of one of my nephews Creditors who must be ruined if the payment of his debt is much longer delayed, &; my promise to him to write again to you on this subject.

     I have stated the accounts of the purchasing legatees, as far as the papers in my possession will permit. I am satisfied that they are very imperfect & in some instances perhaps erroneous, but I hope your papers will enable you to supply omissions & to correct mistakes. In going over them, I wish you to compare them with the Commissioners former account, from which my statement differs in some instances beyond my capacity to explain.

     The 5 Copies of the life of Washin<gton> which by our last contract was to have been deliver<mutilated> I have given to five of my Nephews, and I am <mutilated> to have them bound without further loss of time. B<mutilated> as to deliver them to Mr David Caldwell, who will undertake to have the business of binding attended to.

     I am Just reminded by a second letter from Mr Mercer of New York, of one which I wrote you about a month ago respecting a second edition of the life of W— in 4 volumes which the C. Justice has ready for the press, and the proposal of Mr M. to print a second edition. I could not answer that gentleman properly without first enquiring whether you had secured the prolongation of the Copy right in the way pointed out by Law; & I also wished to know whether the first edition was disposed of.

     At a time when we hoped to recieve mony from you & thought it not unreasonable to expect it, we were greatly disappointed in getting an argumentative letter in which you endeavor to prove that we cannot legally call upon you for payment of any sum until some future period. The ground upon which you seem solely to rely is that for want of a deed, you have not been legally in possession of the land.