[undecipherable] [Endorsements on cover: 24 June 1796 / [undecipherable] &c [undecipherable: Morris?] W-27] [Address panel: Janr. 25. / the [undecipherable] dble / [undecipherable]s ville [undecipherable] Squire / [undecipherable]action at this / [undecipherable]hiladelp[h]ice. / [undecipherable: Rice?] [signature]] Cambridge 24. June 1796. 7 [D]ear Sir, From Wilm[ing]ton I troubled you with a few lines requesting an opinion of yours upon a question that had been sent to me by a constituent on a Speculation [undecipherable] joint too. It was to lend B. a certificate of 10 [undecipherable]ary dollars [undecipherable] in 87 a 8 — B. now re[t]ained the certificate [undecipherable] many like it — but is now willing to pay & what [undecipherable] worth & that next to the [undecipherable: Standard?] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable: 3] p. [undecipherable] a Deferred Stock [undecipherable] attributable to the funding art — [undecipherable] with [undecipherable]tion from this play of the [undecipherable: Loan?] [undecipherable] I suppose to him and funds beyond the interest — & the repayment of the principal — but really I am not the man to tell him a single word worth its own wind upon value: farther than common honesty may afford a [undecipherable: basis?] — & yet when I see him in Worcester [undecipherable] H[undecipherable] I shall soon go to make my valedictory to them. I shall look like a Simpleton If I can not on a barrel head look wise & talk [undecipherable]ingly about the value of their hopes — Will you aid me by a short solution of this question — A day or two after my arrival here I wrote a few lines to you — deploring M^r M[undecipherable]'s weak health — the[n] Thank heaven now better — much mended — and I The mind of this district had been more excited on the late crisis than I expected — their high [t]oned passions generally are really severe — but they are on all I can hear much alarmed & extremely indis[posed] at the Southern party — but also we are a more [undecipherable] in the bucket Delaware was in a perfect ferment & I yet [undecipherable] at them member M^r Patton — young [undecipherable: Boyer?] and a fine young man, of hearts & the right sort & hearts well directed will succeed him — I enclose a bundle of petitions w^h I received a few days since from a M^r Car[undecipherable] a lawyer of [undecipherable] on the Treaty — with his letter to me — & it w[oul]d serve a good end it might be published with real names — he does not seem averse to this — I take our Philad[elphia] paper though now & then we hear them — So have not whither French men eat each others hearts or Englishmen [undecipherable] our seamen — & not our merchants — & indeed as my destiny changes from public to private life not march I feel it incumbent to wean gradually from the contemplation of what can not be attained by thin kind — & prepare for continued uninterrupted retirement — & to grow small by degree — & [undecipherable]edly [undecipherable] — yet to learn the bulk [undecipherable]ate of P[undecipherable]l[undecipherable] information is not the easiest — so & what that ought to be must be — Nothing from the posts yet I suppose — Tis not [undecipherable] that I have been mort[undecipherable] [undecipherable] in a [undecipherable] narrow [undecipherable] from you I know how much you are encased — but a newspaper in an almost [undecipherable] [undecipherable] one & not to tell one that you & in — M^r Henry & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] almost in your own house would give our Military men a rallying point. You my dear [undecipherable] affectionate[ly] [signature]