I had intended to have asked the favor of seeing you here on my present visit, but the account I recieved of your health was such that I could not ask or expect it. I defer that satisfaction therefore to this time twelve month when the building of a house here, which we begin this fall, will call me here, & I shall hope your health will be re-established.   The time is now approaching when I shall wish to be parcelling off some of my lands here to my grandchildren. this renders it necessary I should understand the separate value of each portion of them distinctly. as no person is so well acquainted with them as yourself I must ask the favor of you to consider the questions on the paper inclosed, and to write at the end of each the answer in figures, and to send me the same paper to Monticello, by the first post, having asked the same favor of some others, as soon as I recieve your answer I shall be able to conclude finally in one case which presses.   I by no means mean to give you the trouble of re-inspecting the lands; you know them so well that your answer given on recollection of them & reflection, will perfectly answer my purpose. it is of no consequence that the valuation be at what they might sell for at market: provided all are valued on the same scale, so as to know their comparative worth, it will be sufficient. Wishing you a speedy reestablishment of health, I offer my friendly salutations & assurances of great esteem.