Among the Papers which were recieved from you today is a Letter from Colo Johnson recommending F-C Sharp as Secretary of the Illinois Territory, on which you have put a memo asking whether the Office is vacant.1 So far as we are informed it is not. Mr Pope has given no Notice of his Resignation, or of his intention to resign;2 but it is stated in some of the Letters, recommending a Capt Phillips of Nashville, as his Successor, that Mr Pope intends to resign as he has offered for Congress. The Recommendations in favor of Capt Phillips have been forwarded to you.3

I now enclose a Copy of one of the Papers connected with Kosloffs affair,4 on which I presume Mr Monroe made the assertion in his Letter to Count Nesselrode the accuracy of which you seemed (from your Note in the Margin of that Letter), to doubt. I have taken the Liberty to alter the expression in Mr Monroe Letter so as to make it refer, to the exemplification of the Record which accompanied the Report of the District attorney, and not to the Report itself, as Mr Monroe wrote it.

Our Weather is now very fi⟨ne⟩ ⟨a⟩nd the City continues to be very healthy—the Doctors however predict that it will be otherwise, before the end of next month. With sincere & Respectful attachment I am Dear Sir Your Mo Obt Sert