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It is now a fortnight since you left this, yet it is as much as I can yet do to creep into this house, this is the first of
my writing in it & ^{I am now} obliged to be short as Mr. Monroe keeps the boat on this side till I dispatch it. The Bearer is John Bower one of my Clients
against whom you are concerned. I am forced to give him a general order on the Bar as the man is a stranger knows none of them or who is
concerned agt. him, tho he says he is told several of the Lawyers are by the different defendts. under such circumstances it cannot be doing your
client the least injustice to inform some of the Gent at the Bar that the man is a client of mine & a stranger who wants some of their assis-
tance. I should think your refusing so much in such a case was taking an advantage of me. it is hardly like to happan again but the man is
a German & this his first Voyage at Law.

I was so weak till within these two or three days that I could not bear my own weight standing while you could count
ten, my ancles were as sore as a boil so that I could not bear to have them touched but by bathing & gentle rubbing I mend fast & hope to be
able to take a walk in the garden which I cannot do yet. I ride out & use your prescription of Centaury tea & can eat everything that is set before
me.

I am obliged to you for your Letter & was much pleased to receive a Dansies' srocadendos tho Bob did not arrive with them till
the day after our Court_ I was in hopes that some of our Antagonists had been people of better credit than F.R.S. I cannot however imagine
he or the Squire of Sabine Hall will gain any great credit by their performances. I haven't however had time to make the short answer I intend
to their last pieces. As I miss Colo Smith's & John Oling's Letters to my mother & some other papers that were upon the table in my office the last -
time I was in it. I imagine you must have taken them upon some occasion which should be glad to know. I need not caution you to take care
of them.

I rece[ieve]d two Letters of May 8. & July 20. from your Brother Andrew he referred me to you for farther particulars I am persuaded
there is nothing in mine that would be new to you. I have not however yet got a single paper that he ever sent me.

We are I thank God all in pretty good health at Marlbro' except Maria who seldom holds up above two or three days. Mr.
Selden his wife and daughter left us well yesterday after a visit of three or four days. All of the family desire to be remembered to you. You may look
on this as the beginning of a [letter, only], as I shall immediately after dispatching the bearer set about what papers I promised tho I fear they
will be too late but if it had been to save my life I could not have gone about them sooner.

To
JamesMercer Esqr.
At
Williamsburg

Warrant

George Mercer Esq £600
Expences incurred in 1765 as
Distributor of Stamps in Vir
ginia.