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Lexington Aug. 15th 1833

My dear boy
I must explain to you the cause of my
long silence. In a day or two after I heard of your
return to Washington, I went to Georgetown in
a hurry to see your Uncle James who was
attacked again with the cholera, but he is now in
a state of convalesence. On my return home I
was taken sick, and have been quite indispos-
ed [indisposed] ever since. I feel better today, but I am not
sufficiently well enough to enter in the spirit
of write you a longe letter; therefore if I do
not fill this sheete I hope you will not att-
ribute [attribute] it to no cause but the true one.

You say I must write you a news letter.
I fear I cannot do that, as I know of little that
will interest you; but upon reflection, I know
you will be pleased to hear that your brother
is coming out of the [cinks] moste prodigeous-
ly [prodigeously]. He is now sheriff of half [??alle] county,
and he will fill that situation for the remainder
of this year, and then the county will be di-
vided [divided] in three equal parts, and then Robert of
course will get but one third. It is a very resp-
onsible [responsible] situation, for so young a man, he is
a mear boy in point of years. His uncle is