The acknolegement of your favor of Apr. 26. has been delayed by an absence of some time from home, to which I am but just returned. my note to mrs Laporte was given on the assurance she meant to set up a grocery store in Charlottesville and this was to assist her beginning. having removed from the neighborhood I had not supposed she had made use of my note, and recieving no information about it, I had not known the date of the credit, or I should have prepared to meet it in time. this however will occasion little delay. I only await the return of the boats of our river, now all down, to send by them a deposit of flour to my corresponden[t] [in] [Ri]chmond, Capt Bernard Peyton, and I will send you at [the] same time an order for the money. with this assurance be pleased to accept that of my great respect.