[Ed. Note: This letter, originally printed in Vol. 24: 246–7 under its inscribed date of 21 July 1792, was in fact written from Philadelphia on 21 July 1791 and recorded in SJL under that date; see To Pierre Guide, 21 July 1791 [redated]. Guide’s letter of 28 July 1791, summarized in Vol. 20: 685, is clearly a reply to this epistle.]