I have so often derived pleasure from your writings, that I should deem it an act of gratitude to present to you the paper which accompanies this note,1 were I not sensible how little it enables me to repay my obligations. I can therefore only request that you will place it in your library as a mark of my great respect for one who is realizing the best hopes of all statesmen by closing a distinguished career of public service in the pursuits of letters and agriculture. With sentiments of great consideration I am very respectfully Yrs.