Since the receipt of your two letters of the 5 & 6th. of Ocr. a third with additional proofs in the manufacturing cause,1 has called for my acknowledgts. I now pray you to accept them for the whole.

Your second letter arrived in time, for the destruction of the documents accompanying the first; and I have disposed of the corrected ones as occasions offered, & shall do the same with those last recd.

Whilst I return my thanks for your several favors, I must not omit2 do justice to the ability & zeal which you have so long employed in advancing an object in which I am persuaded as you observe that, no selfish interest mixed itself with the pursuit of public good.