[326—to James Wedderburn Webster]

September 2nd, 1813.

My dear Webster,—

[You]

are just the same generous and I fear careless gentleman of the years of

indifferent

memory 1806—but I must not burthen you with my entire household. Joe

[1]

is, I believe, necessary for the present as a fixture, to keep possession till every thing is arranged; and were it otherwise, you don't know what a perplexity he would prove—honest and faithful, but fearfully superannuated: now

this