Received your check for $110 as half yearly payment to your sister in London.

Have extended my practice to Halifax. Am teaching George law and also lecturing to two youg men who live with me. Am writing secretly for the Portfolio ? I received $2 for every page I choose to publish. The war has greatly diminished the business of law. Have broken up my plantation at Dan River.

Am sending Mr. Henderson's draft on James Brown and Co.

Delighted with the enclosures of your letter. The ode is very pretty. I can find no defects. Walter Scott now sanctions this feature in narrative poestry. I think that the press would accept it.

Wife and children well. Determined not to remain obligated to brother (Henry St. George Tucker) say longer. Has decided to 1. Give brother the Lunenburg land 2. Buy land elsewhere 3. Go into army 4. Purchase land and move west, perhaps near Nashvillle. Will sell interest in Cawson's estate to Perkins and buy land from Gen. Preston near Franklin, Ky. Here no longer considered as of the bar. A postscript added by Mary C. Tucker.

Received your check for $141.00

Judge Coalter gave me a note which I have completed and which will be discounted to meet your $2000 note payable next Friday.

Regrets father's uneasiness on subject in last letter. Has been able to borrow money elsewhere. Has sold to Perkins his interest under Mr. Caran's will. Advertisement father saw was for sale of a public house on the Sulphur Spring tract. Self will retain tract including the spring. Son St. George Tucker has been ill for sixteen days with a bilious fever.

Friend Dr. William Thornton involved in difficulty by shameful conduct of master of vessle in which he is interested. At his request self informs St. George of conviction that he is innocent of participation in or knowledge of base transaction. Writes with desire to make lawful and just impression on St. George's mind.

Enjoyed General Parker. Request his removal from this place. He has retired. General Brown was promoted over him. The tributes to my friend Robert B. Taylor have been without any bounds or measure. We expect Cary about March 10. I will meet him in Washington with letters to your brother.

Please send me my dear child's letter. I was at the armory and your plate was done. It costs $13.20.

My children are all well. I put $903.49 to your credit.

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Son St. George Tucker has improved. Fever left him on 21st day. Wife worn out with caring for him but has her usual good health. Quarterly term commenced today and self is toiling at the law. Assures father that he will not quit it for a seat in the national council which he is being pressed to take.

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