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Camden County Oct. 20th 1811 His Excellency D.B. Mitchell Esquire Dear Sir, I have had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 31st of August last, some time after Date, much mutilated, as tho' it had experienced (in its transit) the severity of the September gale;-- To which favor I should have replied much earlier, but for incontroulable Circumstances, added to the severest Indisposition, which I have experienced for many years past; the effects of which I still continue to feel. --All doubts respecting the Credit, and Debit, of our Epistolary unclear are ballanced by your last letter,-- To your favor of the 25th of April I wrote you at Considerable length: expressive of my opinion as to the probable result of Mr. Fosters mission to the unclear. The policy of our Country, and Government; the State of the Floridas, as well as to the want of some military Equipments,which your orders, holding in requisition the Volunteer Companies of Militia of the first Brigade, had made indispensibly necessary, in the event of their being put under Marching Orders: --Your not having noticed in your last, one sentence of these observations, induces me to suppose that my letter, never coud have reached you, this belief is further strengthend by your invitation to a regular correspondence during the recess of the Legislature (the time of your leisure)