To hear of the welfare of my Friend will always give me great Satisfaction, but your kind Letter of 8th Sepr has afforded infinite Pleasure. as in a paragraph of a Letter you some time ago wrote to Colo. Tayloe you mention’d my being unmindful of you, by not answering a letter that you had wrote to me soon after I had the Pleasure of seeing you last, wch I have never received therefore I must believe it has fallen into the Hands of the curious. I shou’d be pleased if I cou’d find out the person & will endeavor to do it, tho’ I am afraid it will be a difficult task.1

Your kind wishes for my Happiness deserve my most thankful acknowledgements. mine you have, with unfiegned sincerity, and I am truly concern’d to find that the prospect of your’s is so distant. I can only wish & that I will do most ardently that success may attend all your undertakings (& that soon) of wch Happiness must be the consequence.

I wou’d write to you the resolutions of the House of Burgesses but none of them as yet are compleated. I am inform’d that the Govr detains Jenkins until they are, that you may be fully advised of them,2 and my Business obliges me to be absent for a few days, & lest he shou’d be sent off before my return, I shou’d have been wanting in my Friendship to you, if I was not to write, tho’ it shou’d be nothing more than to assure you that I am with the greatest Truth my dear Colo. your mo. Affte & Obedt Servt