It has so happened that your card of Septr 1st, with the Bust which accompanied it, did not get to my hands until some time in the course of last month: & that a letter from your good mother dated Decr 8th 1783, only reached me the 12th of last December.1

For the first you will please to receive the united acknowledgements & thanks of Mrs Washington & myself. The large one she prays may give you no uneasiness or hurry; your convenience in the execution will be most agreeable to her wishes.

In answer to the second, I give you the trouble of forwarding the enclosed letter when you may have occasion to write to England 2—our best wishes attend you; & I am Sir, Yr Mo: Obedt Servant