LETTER CLXV.
Saturday, Feb. 5, 1820.
Dear Theodore,
You will have received my scarcely legible letters. I
hope you will remove to Richmond forthwith. Have the
goodness to explain what you meant by having seen my note
upon note. I hope none of the earwigs and utterers of false
news have attempted to hurt me, with my young friend
Henry C., or his nephew.
G. T. applied to me to know whether it was true, as his
wife was told in Richmond, that I had written to R.!!!
abusing him, (G. T.,) as the author of "The Fudge Family."
I told Mr. T., very serenely, that although I might
plead to the jurisdiction of the court, (his wife not giving up
the author of this story which came "so directly" to her;)
yet, as I was not disposed to be exigeant, I referred him to
Mr. R., and could give him written authority and request to
show any thing he might have in my writing. I also cautioned
him against a similar application to me in future, as I
should meet it with a flat refusal.
When you get married, as I hope and trust you will, I
shall drop our correspondence, so far as it is confidential.
Burn this and all others as fast as you receive them. The
wretches here, not content to make me answerable for what
I do say, get bastard wit, in order to lay it at my door.
Yours,
JOHN RANDOLPH.
A letter from Colonel M. has relieved me for the present,
on the subject of C.
