Dear Sir Your friendly note of yesterday, I have the honor to acknowledge the[reof]. It is not the first mark of kindness you have extended towards me I shall always with pleasure recollect, and be assured Sir, that without words of many on an event favorable and pleasing to the feelings, I hold both your publick and private character in the highest estimation, and that on your retiring (which I sincerely regret) from your present important and arduous station no one can wish you more perfect hap=piness than— Your oblged friend [undecipherable] D. Haywood Trenton The Hon^ble. James McHenry Esq^t. [Address panel: 28 May 1800 / from Trenton. N. Jer. — addressed to The Hon^ble. James M. Henry Esq^r. Philadelphia — postal stamp]