Yours of Augst. 4.1 came safe to hand after a detour into which it was misled by an identity in the names of place. I am very sorry for the disappointing incidents it mentions as well on your account as my own. I hope they will be more than balanced by the success of the Crop on hand, which from its exuberant promise at such an advance of the season can scarcely fail to enable you to make good your intentions in my behalf. I will only say therefore that the serious inconveniences I have suffered from the past disappointment will be greatly increased, unless it be repaired before the 1st. of January. That will be an epoch at which I must meet engagements which will be pressed upon me, and for which the failure almost total of my Wheat Crop last year and the shortness & low quality & price of my Tobacco Crop will leave me without the ability, if not obtained from other sources, of which the remittance from you is an essential one. I trust that this simple statement will have every effect that could be produced by dwelling on a subject, to which I always recur with reluctance & regret.

We have had in this particular neighbourhood an unfavorable season for all our Crops. They turn out not only short of our hopes, but those for market are likely to do so still more in the prices for them.

My Sister Macon of whom you wish to have information has been much indisposed latterly but is getting into better health. There has been much sickness also, & some deaths among the blacks in the families of her Son Conway & her daughter Lucy. My brother William & his family are in their usual health: so are Mrs. Willis & her family. Of our condition here in that respect, the same may be said. No change has taken place in that of my mother, but an increase of debility, but barely perceptible. We find with pleasure that no unfavorable account is given in your letter of the general health of yourself, and the circle to which our affectionate sympathies belong. I tender my best wishes for the continuance of that blessing and the addition of every other.