I have not had the Pleasure of receiving any thing [anything] from you Since, that the receipt of which I have already acknowledged — Tho hope I may am sending to the P [Post]. office, which I shall do early on tomorrow morning—

I am kept very closely confined at this place and Scarcely know how to leave here to attend to my business at Knoxville — you cannot conceive of a more abhorred society than at this place, every section & [unclear: expnsion ] has to undergo the ordeal their Hatred and their Jealously has formed them the most compleat [complete] subject of Citizenship that my eyes ever beheld—

as I do not expect that John Christopher has returned I will forbear writing to him until next mail — and in the mean time [meantime] beg you to repeat what I asked you as afore in my last in relation to the family, and for yourself accept the Sincere esteem of your Friend

Joseph M. Minn