I receiv’d your Letter of the 13th past. Sometime last Summer the Marquis de la Fayette wrote to me about your Affair, and finding by a Letter from you that you had not receiv’d my Answer of Aug. 4. 1784 to yours of May 18, I sent him a Copy of that Answer to be forwarded by him to you, and I wonder you have not yet receiv’d it. Since the Receipt of yours of the 13th past, I have endeavoured to find among my Papers, disordered by Removal, another Copy of the same Answer; which I could not meet with till yesterday. I now enclose it, and am, with great Regard, Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble Servant