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-4- ^ hawkins Informs me he expected you in Orleans in July, if € this letter should find you thear I will tiiank my Son to Send me Some opium. I have but little left from what you Sent me two years ago, I gave henry Elliott three dollors to get some. I can get no Sattisfaction either of the money or the bucks horns, I have wrote you fully on this subject in former let- ters, but a& I neglected taking a receipt from H E—I can get nothing from the oners as ne did not leav(e) them with MP H— I expect he sold thim for Grocery^—as I directed but as their is no account of tnem to be found—I must loose they, once more farewell dear Son and may god bless you allways M A 342