
          still as you will see pressed for time & for
the [present?] much go by the mail or I could
not insure its safety to Greenock.

And now let me thank you again for
your two letters, that dated Oct. 15. &
that of Dec. 10th as well as, & especially
in Mrs. Hooker's name, for the box of sweetmeats
which came while I was in England;
via Livl [Liverpool] indeed, but which cost us little
or nothing. They are excellent. And
now my dear friend I have to thank
you for another communication as announced
in your letter of the 10th Decr.
though it has not yet arrived in Glasgow.
The ship here not yet cleared I
dare say, for I hence a friend in the
Customs House, also always looks to 
my interests at Greenock.

Your letter from "Portsmouth" never
reached me. To that I had only that
one letter from you which you did one
the favor to write from London till
I heard from you from N. [New] York. I did
hope one might have seen you again &
it would have given us, one & all, many
sincere pleasures. Yet I do not wonder
        