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Washington Jany 8 1801
Dear Sir
I rec'd with pleasure yours of the 22d Inst. and pray you to continue your acceptable communications-- whenever your leisure will allow -- under the [assurance?] that as present situated we cannot be so agreeably engaged as when we are reading the letters of our friends -- unless indeed we cd be favored with their company --this however you forbid me to expect -- which I regret much, as I had promised myself the satisfaction of passing some time with Nat Anderson & yourself. You will please make my friendly regards acceptable to that gentleman his Lady & your sister Jane -- it is my ill fortune that as yet I am not acquainted with the rest of your estimable family. I shall indulge my inclination to become so at the earliest period an oppty shall occur. I have been distressed & mortified & seriously alarmed at the proceedings & attempts of our [late?] assembly -- the prevalence of faction & Jacobinian principles there can not but create such sensations in the mind of every North Carolinian and we have
