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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