In order to reduce to a Certainty the Substance of our ^my^ Conversations with Govr Clinton on your Subject & thereby prevent misunderstandings about the Matter in Case of his Death, I w^r^ote him a Letter (the Draft of wh. I accidentally left with my Papers in Jersey) to which I recd. a few Days ago the following answer—

Insert his Letter of 8 Novr. 1784—

My opinion upon the whole is that you return to this country without waiting for consider yourself in the same Light that the Govr considers you and therefore that you return to this Country without [illegible] ^as soon as you conveniently can^. On your arrival such further steps may be taken as may appear ^circumstance may render^ expedient—1 Adieu my Dr Sir Yours sincerely