My dear Sir Cambridge 27. Nov. 95. Your letter of the 19. I received yesterday and thank you for Tho. — one of which you sent to me before — I shall send both to Andapolis where they may work upon the public mind and do good. Before you read the inclosed, should you ever read it, delicacy requires of me that you should know its history — after I read the [underline: Sketch] in the Aurora of Adets long list of grievances (w^h I wish you could commit to Tracy & me in the committee of claims —) I was so struck with the intended tendencies of the piece that I thought a notice of it might be proper for this part of the country in our little weekly paper — I accordingly scribbled away "a correspondents remarks" — intending to write a number of long [underline: paragraphs] — on the several heads — & send them to Cowen — When I had embarked in the subject in the 2^d page of the 2^d sheet — a thought struck me that a proper respect for our cabinet precluded any remarks in the news papers till the Tone had been given by them — and you will perceive the breaking forth of this thought when I refer to Byske^r [undecipherable] — for then I thought I would continue scribbling on as a letter to you — just in the confidential, friendly way in which we have been accustomed to debate our public grievances — and so I continued all this day scribbling, as you may judge from the [underline: size] of the [underline: letter] — but I do not enjoin you to read it. The notes from Valin's Commentary are in my common place a D^o. I send them — I took them from M^r King's — probably Smith has them. I never saw Valin — & have no rated him — or I would have been your extractor — I would most certainly go up before the Session — but Shippen has been with me a few days here — thrown me back in my progress of some hook & — as I pitched on a new frame I must attend to it. I shall go to Monroe work my complim^ts to M^rs Wolcott if you see them soon. y^r [undecipherable] & affectionately Wol[undecipherable]