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Marlbro' Feby 3d 1804
Sir
I am possessed with your letter of Jany 1803. That which you wrote on the return of Mr Cross never reached me or I would have eagerly grasped at the opportunity it would have afforded me of communicating to you the progress of my various pursuits & soliciting from you the direction of my future labours - but I was content to remain unknown rather than be thought obtrusive - it remains to me to offer you my most Zealous services & to request that you will continue to interest yourself in those researches which my peculiar situation enables me to undertake. I had made every arrangement in my power to procure for you the specimen you wish for, when the French arrived on the coast, the 1st of December last & burnt or carryed off all the shipping then in our port. The men left were destitute of the means of communication with the distant residencies & I am afraid
Augt 11 April 10