
          I acted in accordance with your wishes. In one of your
 letters to him which he shewed me, you desired him to
 draw on you to the amount of Fifty Dollars, and as time 
 was valuable, I thought the shortest way to draw on you
 was to pay him the amount myself, and take his order
 on you. This order you will find at the head of the first
 page, and you will be so good as to retain the amount in your
 hands until I call for it, giving me an acknowledgement
 that you hold such a sum subject to my demand. I may
 need it if I come north in Aug. [August] or I may desire it paid to
 some correspondent in your City. 


 I find from your letters and from Gray's, that in 
 your visit to him, you forgot after all to shew him the new
 Rhus, and to ask for the Mountain Tour. I can easily understand
 this as there must have been numerous matters of interest between
 you. You afterwards sent him my letter to you, and have brought 
        