I inclose you an order on Messrs Gibson & Jefferson for 600.D. I had hoped to have done more & sooner: but unfortunately no part of my crop of flour got to market until the blockade commenced, and after keeping it on hand1 in hopes of some reasonable price, until there was danger of it’s spoiling I have been obliged at last to sell, getting for the greater part of it 4.D. only, which after paying for the grinding & transportation neats me 47. cents the bushel for my wheat. in addition to the loss of last year’s labor, the prospect of the current one is worse. in Albemarle the drought has been such that I literally make nothing; the ground having never been even moistened since the 27th of May. I am glad to find it something better, tho’ not very well here. I will thank you to send me by the bearer the articles below mentioned. Accept the assurance of my esteem & respect

Th: Jefferson