I beg leave to return my thanks for the Letter you were so good as to forward me from my Brother, some short time ago—

I am sorry you shd. have thought it necessary to give me any explanation respecting the Seal—   Even had I not conceived of you far more highly than of the best of Characters, I shd., not have thought of ascribing the Circumstance to any other than the Cause assigned by you—and divested of that Consideration, I could not have had the Vanity to suppose any thing in an epistolary intercourse in which I was a party, worthy of your Observation—

I again take the Liberty of enclosing you another Letter to my Brother, as he still assures me that I may continue to use that freedom on Acct. of the Friendship that subsists between yourself & him—

Accept, Dr Sir, Assurances of the highest Respect & Esteem of Yr. Obt. Sert.