I have just returned from spending an agreeable hour with your best Friend. In the Course of our Conversation, he informed me that you had lately in Addition to former complaints, been afflicted with an intermitting fever of a tertian type. This state of fever in our Climate of late years is often accompanied with inflammatory Symptoms, and instead of yielding to its usual remedy the Bark, is Often made worse by it. I have found the most effectual remedies for it at this Season to be the loss of a few Ounces of blood if the pulse be full or tense, the use of the fever powders (the recipe for which I gave you) and Blisters to the wrists. After the Use of all the Above remedies, the Bark is sometimes useful to subdue the remains of the fever. The Blisters will be useful Upon Other Accounts than merely assisting in curing your Intermittent. In habits in any degree affected by Gout, they serve to fix those morbid Actions in an external and safe part, which by rambling through the System are disposed to injure more vital parts.—

It will be highly necessary to preserve a uniform warmth in your feet.

Should the weather become dry, as well as Cold, and the ground continue to be covered with Snow, a ride to Philadelphia in the course of the Winter may contribute to establish your health for many years to come. You shall have my Advice to leave Us, long before our Gutters, and Sewers exhale the matters of yellow fever.—

My dear Mrs Rush, and the Young folks of my family join in the most Affectionate remembrance of you with my dear madam your sincere friend / and most Obedt / Servant1

you are very good dear William in your attentions towards me, and I receive the papers regularly which will now become more interesting as Congress proceed in buisness. yours of the 10 & 12 of december I have received this week.1 the Aurora shows that tho Bache is dead, he yet speaketh, or rather that the party which supported him, are determined to have a press devoted to them. whether the influence is foreign or domestick, or both together it is of concequence that it should be made to keep within the bounds of decorum, and if we had not a milk and water A T G—ll the Rasscalls should yeald to the Laws—2 I expect we shall have to use some of the tribute due to Tallyrand before the daring Spirit, of Kentucky, and its Mother state will be quiet.3 I have no great opinion of more decisive measures being adopted by Congress than have been, at least I fear so. some of our warm Spirits think the Presidents speech tho firm, very cool & moderate to what they expected. even Jarvis says it is mild— it is what it ought to be, not a personal feeling in it, but as connected with the honour and dignity of the Nation.

I am rejoiced to hear you are so well pleased, and happy, and that mr Brisler has a Good servant in lieu of John but if he is a Foreigner, 316 however he may understand his buisness I am certain, judging from the experience I have had from my first going to Philadelphia, a few months will prove him either intemperate or dishonest, perhaps both, such have been every one which we have yet had. I therefore more highly prize an American whose Character has stood Eleven years trial and whose countanance looks like temperance, and whose manners are civil decent and becomeing— I believe mr Brisler will find him to wear better, than any of the foreign servants. I should therefore wish to have him Confided in, if he is found deserving—

I heard from your Mother this week.4 she is well. I have been much better for these three last weeks, than for four months before. I have had good rest, all but one Night, and that was when I read in the paper, that the President was so indisposed as not to be able to attend Congress, to deliver his speech: my dear doctor used to say, I do not want to ask you how you do. I met the President, and I saw by his looks how you were— I hope he will keep up his spirits, and that we shall meet again with more agreable prospects of Health, than the last summer afforded; your uncle Cranch rode out yesterday, and made me a visit. he is better— I am anxious; very much so, for my dear Thomas—a dreadfull coast, & a cold threatning winter, the worst of seasons to come Home in, but I must commit him to a kind providence which has Singularly favourd my Family, in all their various voyages why should I distrust?

Louissa says I may send her Love to you, tho it is not of that nature which mrs Willing described If it was mrs George Willing, I do not think she has ever recoverd from her dizziness—

I believe by your annecdote of dr Logan, that the Chronical told truth for once!!— I know not why he should regreet, words of course— a poor creature! my Love to mrs otis I will write to her soon— my pens are bad; Bobby does not come often enough to keep them in good order— I am your affectionate