University of Virginia Library

TO JAMES MONROE.

Mr. Camp handed me yesterday your two favors
of the 11 & 12 of March. I can say nothing determinate
as to the prospect of him & Mr. Lambert, because
I do not yet know what arrangements may be contemplated
throughout the Departments. I think
however it would be unwise in any of the Candidates
to neglect other resources: the number of them being
such as greatly to reduce the chance to individuals,
& it being not improbable that in some of departments
at least the number of offices themselves may
be reduced I have not yet recd. your letter for
Chancelr. Livingston nor the letter from Mr. Skipwith
to which you refer. He will not embark on
his foreign Mission till the ratification of the Treaty
in France arrives here.

Callender I find is under a strange error on the
subject of his fine, and in a strange humor in consequence

of it.[141] I inclose an open letter for him
which you will please to read & forward. How has
the delay in giving effect to the remission of the fine
happened? It ought to be known & explained to
him. What I state to him as the view of the President
I have from the P. himself, & therefore cannot
be mistaken in.

I have been here a few days only & can say nothing
to you from the Department. I find myself in the
midst of arrears of papers &c &c, which little accord
with my unsettled health.