I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the sketch of your life. I feel obliged by your kind attention to me. Justice shall be done to it.

I hope, dear sir, you have received, before this, the first half volume of the Repository. If it will not be inconvenient, I should feel proud to receive from you two single lines of your approbation of the work. Something like approving of the plan, style of execution &c &c. I shall receive a line or two from Mr. Jefferson on the same subject & shall give these with the next half volume which I am now preparing for the press, & which, among others, will contain the life & portrait of Mr. Jefferson. Yours will appear in the third or fourth half volume. I remain with the highest respect & esteem, your obedt. & most humle. st.