The last Mail brought me your letter of the 19th. Inst:1 I am glad you bought the family plate. Do you know anything about a likeness of Uncle F. I have been busy the last week in setting out young Locust Trees, & have planted about Seventeen hundred.

I enclose Notes of the Negociation In Spain. To condense the contents of a large Volume2 into the compass of 8 pages is I assure you no triffling labour; & it is often times perplexing to determine what is best to insert & what to reject. As you have read the letters yourself, you will see how much injustice these Notes do our dear Father; & yet it cannot be otherwise. Mr: Coleman3 ought to read the letters himself; & then instead of giving a summary of their contents give merely a character of the Negociation.

I will endeavour to send you by the next Mail. Notes of the remainder of the Correspondence. Nancy Maria & Augusta send their love to you Mary & Sally. Give mine also, & tell Sally that I have not forgotten that I owe her $5, & that I will pay her sometime in the course of the Summer shd: I happen to come to Town. The Season thus far very much resembles last Spring. We are suffering from cold & drought. Remember me to John & believe me, my dear Brother, Yours very sincerely,