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Has new son born June 8, named Beverley. Nathaniel Beverley Tucker spent ten days with them and is much improved in mind and manners. Regrets he must be separated by 800 miles.

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Have made ony one visit to Montivideo. Dr. Cary Barraud spent two days with us. Polly is opposed to going to the springs. Like my new overseer. The crops look fine.

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Will not leave here until the 2nd of next month. Can we meet in Richmond and travel to Bremo together?

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Our court has adjourned. Am free until October. Getting Saint ready to go to school at Montivideo. Hope you will soon be on your way up. Evelina and Herny Tucker have another son.

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Sent your letter to England. Enclosing bill for flour sent to Bermuda.

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Will call a meeting of the Board of Directors in the fall. Everything was done to get the Bank Bill passed by the House of Representatives.

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Evelina and Beverley well. part of children have had measles. Mrs. Hunter visited them but went back when a hand on her farm had fever. Mrs. Carr is critically ill. In Martinsburg recently saw a Judge Easton and Miss Butterfield of Bermuda. They knew the Tucker relations there. Mrs. Butterfield may be self's second cousin.

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Please have my books sent up by water to Richmond to Mr. Rootes. I promise myself some pleasure from the fragments of Mr. Dunbar's library. George is at Mr. Stacks in Charlottesville. Next year I will probably send him to William and Mary.

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Sending a statement of the market for grain. The early crop will sell better.

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I cannot procure sufficient employment to enable me to pay my debts. Could you loan me a little money?

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Nathaniel Beverley Tucker arrived yesterday. Sister McPheeters still poorly. Nathaniel Beverley Tucker had a most distressing journey. Exposed to rain and the most intense heat. Was not in the convention. Missouri Convention going on as well.

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Glad you will attend the meeting of the stockholders. Remitted to the Bank of Virginia $184, your dividends.

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Credited your account with $50 which will be subject to a check for your nephew.

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Returned from harvest. Glad father is going to mountains and does not return to sickly low country too early. Been laboring like a hand in the harvest. The newcomer is stoutest child they have had throught that does not say very much. Regrets Coalter will not visit them. A Mr. Watkins ? of Prince Edward County been there and given them news of brother.

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Constant drudgery keeps me from writing you. My husband's family's eyes are now open to David Ogden.

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Arrived here Thursday, Sorry I didn't see you. John, his mother and Lelia will not be able to go home with me. Would like to come over and see you. All is peace here. Have had rain for two days. Write to me by next mail to Canton.

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Hope the quiet of Warminster will restore your health. We will go by Abingdon to see my brother and sister.

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Will be off for Winchester by Friday. Hope to make a contract for a section of the James River improvements.

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I hope your son's education may be conducted to make him feel his obligation to your parental cares. Enclosing the papers you sent me.

Scope and Contents Nathaniel Beverley Tucker left with self bills to collect. To make payment from proceeds for him in Philadelphia. By last accounts beloved sisters (in Bermuda) continued as usual. Puzzled with enclosed letter from good sister (Mrs. Jane Tucker). At loss for most interesting part which fears conveys no pleasant information. Their nephew after taking degree aeems undermined as to future. Thinks she intimates he does not like profession. Also that he has fondness for painting. Medical advice....

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We are now off for Winchester. Including a piece written by St. George Tucker for The Enquirer. Also a poem written by Tucker to Wirt.

Scope and Contents Expecting Mr. Coalter. Evelina and family went to her mother's. At springs on Shenandoah met Judge Dade, Mr. Wirt and Mr. Carr. Wirt is cheerful and reminds self of first two lines of Pope's sketch of Sir Robert Walpole. Public life puts a constraint on his gaiety andgood fellowship. Mrs. Lee showed his letters written in 1792-4 from the second Mrs. Coalter which brought back many memoirs. Duel between brother and Robert Taylor, a student's ball at the College. Reread his own old letters and...

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What day would suit you for the stockholders meeting?

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The pole broke on the carriage during our journey here. Henry and St. George were here. The rest at Mrs. Hunters. Beverley Tucker arrived in Missouri July 4. I closed with Biffs and John Gamble to make canal from the present canal to the locks above for $40,000. To be completed in October 1821.

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Thank you for your presents. Family news.