Scope and Contents Just arrived in London; bad season for visiting the city, as all fashionable people have left for "watering places;" will leave in a day or two for the Hague, then for Paris by way of Flanders; Eng. in a state of chaos; Irish propositions uncertain; necessity of learning French to do business not only in France but everywhere on the continent; his son Gray should learn French, and Italian too perhaps; Jefferson, already a year in France, is obliged to speak much English, so his French does not improve; Col. David Humphries, legation secretary, the same; have tried harder than any American ever to learn French; has heard of his possible visit to Europe; hopes to see him; can send letters to Col. Forrest or Fulwar Skipwith; hopes he received papers left for him in Virginia; Hog Island gave concern, and hopes he got rid of it; his kind offer of assistance may be taken up, as have not heard from Mr. Benjamin Harrison, who agreed to handle affairs; ask for a letter of credit, to be used only in an emergency; has written in this vein before, but think letters miscarried; sends this through Col. Forrest and Fulwar Skipwith.