I must beg your pardon for having led you into an Error in my former letter concerning your manuscript. Your letter was recd at the Capitol, where having no opportunity of examining my Books and papers brot from home, having intended to bring the manuscript with me, it was taken for granted that it was put up and brot here. But on examination it was found that I had left it at home in my desk. I have written on to Robert Smith a young Gentleman who lives with me who is at school, at Mr Maury’s,1 to whom I have also sent the Key of my desk, to get the manuscript from my desk and to deliver it to yourself forthwith—I have been in weekly expectation of finding a few days to run home: but the urging of Important business has prevented me.