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Washington 3d. Decber. 1815 Dear Governor. I rec'd with much pleasure your letter of congratulation on my return to the United States. I should have been highly gratified to have Seen you at my house at any time during my stay, but particularly in the early part of it, when we were not so wholly occupied with arrangements for our Journey. We arrived at this place without material accident-- though much fatigued, and considerably afflicted with the influenza which met us in the State of Georgia. We are now in good health. Four of our members of Congress have arrived, and I Presume the others are on the way. I greatly fear that the election of governor will produce a schism among our Political friends which will not be easily reconciled. I was apprehensive that a candidate of the mongrel party in the State would have succeeded. I am glad that my apprehensions have not been realized. I wish to abstract myself as much from the State Politics as I can, but I have been so long interested in all the political transactions of Georgia