Your mother is so much pleasd with the guallity and price of the tea and Sugar you sent by Phill: that she desires you will purchase three pounds of the tea and Six loaves of the Sugar least they should grow dearer— this you will Judge of being on the spot— as also of the practicability of getting it forwarded by water to Elk or safe storage for if their till it can be brought from thence to you comies or Nomony by some trusty hand, safe from the enemy &c. &c. 

     We only reached this place the day before yesterday in our way to Berkley we shall proceed tomorrow but the weather is so hot that I had like to have kill'd one or two of my Horses in getting here, and unless it should turn out cooler we must move on very slowly— Your Mama is certainly better and I have great reason to believe will be much benefited, if I find the Air to agree with her I shall not return till late in Octr.

     I arrived home on monday night safe through a very heavy rain; when I got home not a white sole was in the house to receive me, they were at Spring grove. I stay allnight by myself & all the next day for they did not get home until nex night.

     I have been requested by Saml Washington to forward to him the Patent for the tract of Land on the Kanakwa devided between <Thos> Hammond, and the heirs of Corbin Washington & a certifyd copy of the deed of Partition—to enable him to recover the Land sold by T. Hammond— Will you look at the inclosed <mutilated>hers, & do that which you may think best f<mutilated>is interest— I should not have troubled one with this but understanding you would not be at Mount Vernon before your departure for Philadelphia I thought it best to send them to you.

     Your letter of the present month, without date, came duly to hand; & I sincerely thank you for your expressions of condolence in regard to my late misfortune— Such indeed has been my painful situation & close confinement by the inclemency of the weather that, I have not been able to pay the attention that I wished, to the claim of the estate of Genl Washington against me— I learn, however that, our Banks here have discontinued their discounts for a short season, in consequence of the heavy demands of the Northern Brokers, & some late [c]laims of the Bank of the United State

     Allow me to state that Gerrit Smith Esqr., a Gentleman of the State of New York, has recently sent us a donation of $100 & offered to increase it to $1000 to be paid, one hundred annually, for ten years, in case one hundred other individuals will consent to subscribe cash the same amount. Our Board think it exceedingly important that something should be done to further the project of Mr. Smith, at our Annual Meeting, & have authorized me to submit the subject to the charitable consideration of several distinguished Gentlemen.

     Our Anxiety is in a great measure releived by the receipt of your kind considerate letter my dear Uncle, to Judy; I trust what was so welcome to us, did not cost you too much exertion, or solicitous as we are to hear from you we had rather forego the gratification; than you should incur additional fatigue.

     The Corporation of Harvard University, having regard to your distinguished merits in general and your eminent character in the Judicial Department, did, on the last Commencement, confer upon you the Degree of Doctor of Laws.

     They wish this testimony of their estimation may prove not unacceptable.

     While literature in other countries is languishing for want of encouragement from the great, and leagued oppression is striving unremittedly to quench the blaze of Science, and sweep from earth all that adorns mankind; We feel an honest pride in courting the approbation of one, who, though perhaps engaged in a multiplicity of other concerns, must view with interest the daw[n]ing Splendour of our national literature.

     In consequence of instructions from the Committee of Arrangements of the American Bible Society, I have the honour to inform you, that the next annual meeting of the Society will be held in this City, on Thursday, the twelfth day of May next. The Managers would rejoice to see you on that interesting occasion, & respectfully request to be honoured with your presence, as a Vice President of the Society.