I received your Favour of Jan. 26. with the Volume of Sermons, for which please to accept my Thanks. I have read them with great Pleasure, and I think no one can read them without Improvement.

I condole with you on the Loss of that excellent Woman, so long your pleasing Companion. The being depriv’d of dear Friends and Relations one after another, is a very severe Tax we pay for living a great while ourselves. But such is the miserable State of things in this Period of our Existence; the Rectification is only to be expected in that which is to come.

My Health continues as when Mr. Vaughan left us. My Malady does not grow perceptibly worse, and I hope may continue tolerable to my Life’s End, which cannot now be far distant, being in my 82d Year.

On farther Consideration of My Scheme for sinking the National Debt, I become so doubtful of it, as not to venture exposing it to Baron Maseres. I must digest it a little better.

We have now meeting here a Convention of the principal People in the several States, for the purpose of revising the federal Constitution, and proposing such Amendments as shall be thought necessary. It is a most important Business, and I hope will be attended with Success.

With great and sincere Esteem, I am ever, my dear Friend, Yours most affectionately