University of Virginia Library

LETTER CIX.

On returning here yesterday, I found your three letters,
of the 2d and 30th of March, from Philadelphia, and of
the 5th of this month, from Georgetown. I hasten to send
Jupiter for you, and must not omit a message of Dr. Randolph,
requesting you to call on him as you come up.

You will have learned, before this reaches you, that, so far
from "triumphing over my enemies," as you anticipated,

they are triumphing over me: a triumph which, for my country's
sake, I deeply regret; but which has no power to shake
the firmness of my purpose, or to disturb the serenity of my
mind. It releases me from an odious thraldom, and, I assure
you, my dear Theodore, I have thought, and yet think, much
more of the charming Mrs. G. than of the election. The low
and base arts to which my adversaries have resorted, have
not raised them, or sunk me in my own esteem.

My best regards to Dr. and Mrs. B., and to Ryland. Ask
him about my shirts: I am half naked: and bring up my
boots, left at his house.