Permit me to request you to accept my cordial thanks for the list of your works, obligingly communicated by your letter of the 9th. I hope I shall profit by the hints you give respecting the origen of the constitutions of several of the States & that of the United States, should I live to bring my history up to that period.

Let me entreat you, whenever you write your son in Russia, to mention to him the name of your most obedient / humble servant