With the Greatest pleasure I hear that By a frigatte just arriv’d at Brest you may have Got some news from America— how far my heart is Concern’d in any thing that may happen to My American fellow Citizens, I need not telling to You— I therefore entreat you, My good friend, to let me know Any public or private, important or insignificant intelligence you have Receiv’d—suppose there was some thing secret in them you might deliver Your letter to Mde de lafayette who will forward it with safety— there are about charles town so various accounts that I am at a loss to fix any opinion on that part of the Continent— That Fort Lafayette is taken seems very certain— adieu my dear doctor, I write in a great hurry, and most affectionately I am Yours