Your letter of the 4th could not leave Charlottesville till the 8th and was recieved here1 on the 9th. our mail starts for Charlottesville tomorrow & will arrive there on Saturday at 6. P.M. I am glad you have given the assistance of a hand to each cooper’s shop, and wish it to be continued, and even more help to be given if necessary, for I look to the offal of the mill as our only resource for bread. I think it very certain that bread will not be made in the upper country generally. if we can keep the mill going it will be a resource for the present. after these two objects are secured, the next in importance is the river canal to the sawmill. I have engaged here the best mill wrigh[t] [. . .] have ever known to go and rebuild the sawmill an[d] [. . .] the gristmill as soon as the canal is done. I salu[te you] with friendship and esteem.