Dear S^r New York Haven 25 June 1784 M^r DeMde will have the honor of delivering you this. It affords me the opportunity, while I introduce him as a man of being into your offices, to recommend him most warmly to your friendship — he's ambitious, & industrious — If you once find him, as he recovers his health, capable, active, & attentive to his business here he bears an excellent good Reputation — I have lately gone returned from New York, & am very busy, which prevents my troubling you, as usual, with a long letter Adieu J. Withrose M^r Pierce [Y2P25]