Believing it may [be] a Matter of some Curiosity to you, to know what is doing in this Part of the World respecting Legislation, I send you inclos’d a Copy of the new federal Constitution propos’d by a Convention of the States.
We are now so remote from each other, that it is difficult to keep up a regular Correspondence between us, and it is long since I had the Pleasure of hearing from you. Some of the Books you sent me did not come to hand, so that I want of