Dr Sir!

I have not recd a letter from you but that from Lawsons Bay. I hope you are not unmindful of the main chance, vizt providing for the dispatch of Brown & Norwood & getting remittances, had you struck for 500 or 100 hhds of Tobo when you first arrived it wd have been lucky at the Aprl price of 25/. I fear a loss, unless no Tobo is made this summer. Romans sales are all sent, his cargoe averages £7 P hhd wch you may be boasted of. The James River ships are dropping in, not much is at market, but there is no demand; Herries bot of Gist at 3¾ but it was a trick to sell his own 2000 hhds which Willing & Co have bot for him in Virga  A Spanish War is expected. The contents of the inclosed Lre shoud be known at least that the demand has been made here & I desire you to get an authenticated Acct under the hand of some Gentn of the whole proceedgs in destroying Estens Tea. We understand the acquiescence in Virga was to curry favor there & then a demand is made on the Underwriters here for the loss. ー this shd be known ー consult F. L. Lee but you need not let anybody know that I am an underwriter. Let me know who ships that I may know how to accept Bills. I have a bad headache so farewell &c