Dear Sir, — Your ohliging letter, besides the pleasure
it afforded on other accounts, relieved me from the sdngs of
a bad conscience, which had continually reproved me for
writing that to which yours was an answer. I had really
feared mine was an unwarranted intrusion upon the time u
a man so oppressed with the weight of correspondence as
you are. To avoid the sin of augmenting iJiis burden, I will
add, that I do not expect you will answer this. You have
intimated that I may communicate my thoughts, which is as
much as I ought to engross of your time.
