1828 August 2, Woodbourne, to Brother, Philadelphia

              Woodbourne 8mo 2nd, 1828

Dear Brother,



Thine of 24 ult. reached me by last mail as there is no magistrate in my immediate neighborhood, I annex a short power of atty, confirmed by private witness if this should not be sufficient to enable thee to collect the divd. on the M.S. B'k stock. I will be obliged by thy procuring a certified copy of the power in thy hands, as the expense of one cannot I think, be so much but that ye include any amount of ye divd. would soon more than repay it, and may as well have ye use of ye money as the Bank. Please when convenient, invest this and ye sum for Ches. and Del. Canal Co., and the Ches. Del. Canal loan at the current price of said loan, unless it should so happen that you could use it to advantage. I am pleased to hear that you are likely to [acrue] something on your claim against ye estate of Geo. [Yeuillo] as this is not generally a good season for freights, I am willing to hope that other causes besides ye influence of the tariff may be assigned for ye poor freight of the Algonquin. I am sorry that several of our worthy friends are likely to suffer by M. Evans' failure, and I hope they may not be seriously embarrassed. At ye close of thy letter, allusion is made to a subject, on which I feel as if I would at present, as willing be silent, as to open my mouth. I nevertheless, feel grateful for ye interest, expressed by thee. It remains exactly, as far as my knowledge extends, in ye estate in which it was when I last conversed with thee in regard to it. Nothing has passed between ye parties since ye reasons for this, as will as ye subject itself, it does not appear to me to be desirable to portray on paper. A disposition to regret the course that I adopted sometimes arises, but a consciousness of rectitude of intention, check its growth. Though I may fail in practicing upon it, I think ye theory, good, that after having acted our part agreeably to ye best of our judgment and conscience, we should in regard to temporal things, discard anxiety about future events. We unsocialably encounter ills enough without creating such as not ye avoided. I intended answering Caroline's & Alfred's letters