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                     New Orleans - April 8th 1831
My Dear Col'n
     Many thanks for your very friendly consideration, and I feel truly obliged by your letter of the 20th inst. which I received yesterday - but before I proceed, I must beg of you to make my best regards to Mr. Felt, not forgetting his Cora [[?]], and inform him that so far from having neglected what was due from one Gent. to another, I replied almost Instant[[?]] to the letter he was so obliging to address to me at Boston, and I am afraid that without this explanation, he may set me down as a bad sample of an Englishman - however upon the strength of this assertion, I flatter myself that he will not insert my name in the black book, for I can assure you that several letters which I have forwarded, have unaccountably miscarried - so much for Post regulations -- I certainly shall feel extremely gratified in having a fine specimen of my good and honored late Father's pencil as the Christ Rejected, exhibited in New York, for I am induced to believe, that it has been only partially seen,