I have recd. & thank you for the letters for Hamburg & Bremen,1 which will be transmitted from the Dept. of State.

We ended our journey last evening. With the exception of a short pelting shower on the day we set out, the weather & the roads were peculiarly favorable. I found the prospects of the farmers generally far better than I had expected; The Wheat fields much better, untill I reached my own neighbourhood, where the Hessian fly has done considerable injury, tho’ much less than was reported; and the injury has been in some degree also mitigated by late rains. Affectionate respects