strings: appointed delegates that you know you can safely confide in. If yourself and James Short were appointed from your county, all would be safe ; but whether Jim's woman affair a year ago might not be in the way of his appointment is a question. I don't know whether you know it, but I know him to be as honorable a man as there is in the world. You have my permission, and even request, to show this letter to Short; but to no one else, unless it be a very particular  friend, who you know will not speak of it