By the Favour of a Young Lady, Miss Caroline Tucker, going to visit her Mother and other Friends in her native Country (Maryland) I take the liberty of troubling you with another letter, to inquire the State of your Health and hoping to hear, that in all other Respects, you enjoy as good a share of Worldly Happiness, as may make the Life of a Philosopher, neither tedious, tiresome or miserable.

I wrote you a very long letter from hence, dated 22d June 1786; to which, having had no kind of Answer, I have had reason to suspect either carelessness, or Infidelity, in some of the Hands intrusted with it; My Agent in Bridgetown undertook to find a proper Conveyance; But as I said before, I can hardly think it could have come to your Hands, without your letting me know, that no intervention of a ruinous War, or hostile peace, or of National and unnatural seperation, brought about by Ministerial Revenge, could affect philosophic Friendships so far, as to make you, in any situation, forget an old acquaintance.

I have been here seven years and half, looking after, recovering and restoring my Estates to Vigour, which by Fraudulent Management under infamous and impolitic Laws, had suffered a great deal. I am, dear Sir, with great Esteem and Regard, Your Excellencies Most humble Servant