YOUR kind letter addressed to your sincere friend and wellwisher arrived most seasonably; and as it contained accounts of your health and welfare my joy was great. May the Almighty preserving you from every thing that is bad, and improper, grant your desires both temporal and eternal. And it is proper and becoming that observing the same laudable conduct; and that calling me to your remembrance, you give me your commands for any service to which I am equal; that exerting myself from my heart and soul I may perform it. May the days of prosperity increase!