I avail myself with thankfulness of the opportunity your kindness offers of procuring certain articles from London, which I have long wanted, and only waited a special opportunity to acquire. you will find a list of them on the next leaf. I have been less scrupulous in enlarging it because you mentioned it as your wish to bring your property from England in some other form rather than money. I suppose these articles may cost about twenty guineas.

Having a friend in York, mr Strickland, eldest son of Sir George Strickland of that place, to whom I wish to send the model of the mouldboard of a plough with which he was much pleased when he was at my house in Virginia, I have put one for himself into a small box, and another into a second for the board of agriculture in London, of which we are both members, and which he will recieve & present. I ask the favor of you to take charge of these with the letter addressed to him, & to leave them with mr Monroe our Min. Plen. at London; unless you should propose to lengthen your journey to Stafford as far as York, in which case you would do me a favor by presenting them youself. Accept my thanks for the kind proffer of your services on this occasion, my wishes for a safe & pleasant voyage & return, and my salutations.