
          Recd [received] May 9th
 Ansd


 Albany 8. May 1836.


 My dear Sir:


 I have just received your
 favor, having been absent from the City some
 days. I need not say I regret the course
 you have felt it your duty to take; and 
 you must allow me to disclaim wholly the
 most remote design of intimating that any
 gentleman, who has declined taking part in 
 the great public work about to be executed,
 has been influenced by pecuniary considerations,
 excepting so far as he may have felt
 constrained by a sense of duty to himself
 and family to devote himself to the more
 lucrative pursuits, in which he may have been
 embarked. I alluded to the compensation,
 which I well know is small, for the purpose

        