We received your favor of March 31. yesterday and learn with great joy that your next will order your horses—that of the 4th. March I thought I had acknowledged but find it slipped me: those of the 7. & 9. have not yet reached me. I cannot express the feelings your kindness excite: I was really on the point of ruin from my own neglect: I knew all along that I should not have one moment when the Varina debt did come on me & should have sold my Tob’o. in full time to meet it if I had acted wisely: but a great price for that crop rendered me perfectly easy for life & I risked ruin with the hope of obtaining it & I fear have procured embarrassment for life: 4$. at Lynchburg would have been as well as what I got, on acc’t. of the high carriage & great losses I sustained: Clarke obtained 10$. & I could have had 12 by giving a credit to meet the demand for Varina in the fullest time. My crop on hand I am compelled to sell immediately for I counted too much on high prices for produce & made contracts which I shall be rendered unhappy by, but I believe I may (if I do not lose my health,) by exertion get through without a sale; if the absolute necessity I shall now be under for years, of Selling my crops as soon as I can get them to market does not curtail too much my annual income. I will never be too late again in preparing for a demand: I have had a lesson on that I shall never forget.

We have all been a little unwell since our return—Martha & Ann for one day each, I myself for many with a terrible inflammation & imposthume on my hip from a hurt in driving home.

Ursula is better tho still confined in bed & greatly swelled. All goes on well at Mont’o.: what is under Lillie admirably.

with most cordial affection y’r. &c