With my thanks for the past, I beg the favr. of your attention to the letter now inclosed. I wish you to abridge the trouble I give by omitting that of answering my letters, [ae in] yrs of the [2]2[nd] just recd. Th[ere] is so little risk in the mail [however] to Philad. that I can safely take for granted that there has been no miscarriage. recd. & With great & cordl. esteem