It was my intention to have taken the stage for Charlottesville, on this day, but learning from Mr Law that your stay at Monticello would be rather longer than I at first apprehended; and the session of the Court of Appeals, in which my presence is necessary, not having terminated; I am induced to postpone the journey till next week.

I believe that I have now collected every MS volume of our laws extant, which are not in your library; and I have been so fortunate as to procure several acts which you state to have been lost from your collection.—With the aid which you have been so obliging as to offer, I shall be enabled to bring this great work to a tolerable state of perfection.

I am respectfy. yrs