Your’s of yesterday was recieved last night. you need take no trouble about the flour balance, till you have it of your own; and as to the damaged 27. barrels I mean to bear my own part of that misfortune, so that you have nothing to make up on that account. I set out tomorrow for Bedford & shall be back by the 20th. mr Bacon will be starting about that time for Missouri, and will want some money from me; so that it is possible that the money balance may be a convenience then, unless mr Bacon should think it safer to take with him a note payable in bank, rather than the cash itself.   I went to the mill this morning with a view to advise with Powers1 & mr Colclaser what is to be done in the inside [of?] the mill. but mr Colclaser was absent. I have therefore desired mr Bacon to go with mr Colclaser & Powers thro the mill, and decide what is necessary to be done, & whatever can be done by Powers & Davy they are to go on with: but what requires a greater force can be done only after harvest; but it may begin the day after the people are discharged from the harvest field. by that time however I shall be back.   I salute you with affection & respect

Th: Jeffer[son]