You will confer a great favor on me by writing me whether you
were really the author of a letter to Major Isaac Roney, of
Dinwiddie Court House, Va., relative to his boy Tucker White,
and if you were the author, please let me know when you last saw
him, and where. I called at your office yesterday to see you,
but your cousin (I think he said he was) told me you had the
cholera, and if you felt well enough you were going to the
country to-morrow. I hope you will excuse my writing to you
to-day, on that account. I would not know where to direct a
letter if I were to wait until to-morrow. If you know anything
concerning him and will let me know it, so that I can find and
arrest him, you will very much oblige
Yours, &c.,