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Nashville Dec^r 8^th 1824

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[re]gret to find that one packet of last
[page damaged] was not sent up by M^r Howard. At
[page damaged] departure, I was greatly afflicted with the
[page damaged] which accounts for the omission. I hope
[page damaged] an opportunity of sending it up to day.
[page damaged] The commissions on the inclosed [sic] return may
be sent to Charles McCrory Nashville post office, if
issued within a week or ten days.

Please to include in your next quarters
account nine dollars for a ream of paper and
some wafers which I bought yesterday.

The late news from New York has effected [sic]
your friend Balet greatly - he has not, says rumour,
been seen in the streets since. If you can prescribe
a remedy for his disease, I pray you do so, that
he may be restored to life and activity again.

You will do me a favor ^by getting C. [Suble?]
to learn from Col.^o Smith, the [page damaged]
will take in cash for his old man Jack.

I shall certainly be up the first favorable
weather.

I have not yet heard from General La Fayette.
If his answer does not come very shortly, I shall
forward through General Jackson a duplicate of the
preamble and resolutions

Thine truly
W^m Carroll