[Docket/Address panel, written on exterior of folded letter:] Oliver Wolcott Jr from the Secretary [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [James mcHenry] [24h county] Near Downings town 22 Sep^t. 1797. My dear Sir. The bilious fever with which I have been attacked has left me weak and subject to feverish returns that affect both my sleep and spirits. I flatter myself however that a little care and time will enable me to enjoy the beauties of this part of the country which are far more cheering various and interesting than the dull damp sedgy serpentine sorrowful river whose banks have become your residence. What obstructs my recovery is the business which I am obliged to attend to. Tempee and Cox have a good deal disturbed me, but I expect (as my nephew has informed you, that the measures which I have taken will prevent any insurrection in that quarter and defeat Cox's project. It is true that Blount has still influence in Tempee. I recd. a letter yesterday from Cap Guion dated 24 July Chickasaw Bluff. where he was with his party. Don Carlos Dehault Delafees commanding at New. Madrid protested against his passing; he proceeded nevertheless, assigning for reason his orders, and the necessity to deliver to the Chickasaws their annual stipend and to preserve the peace of the Indians, agreeably to treaty — but promised at the same time not to go beyond the Bluff "until the present difficulty arising on the interpretation or construction of the treaty had ceased and that information to that effect had arrived either from the Governor Gen^l of Louisiana or from his superiors in office in the government of the U.S." You see how we are