We wish you to be entirely satisfied in the vindication of your claims and you shall have your own way of doing it. I am willing also to make my own amends, as it appears to me upon examining again my language in the address at Boston, that its language may not have been sufficiently guarded although it was fully my intention to do you justice & to give you distinguished honor.

Whatever you may resolve upon, we should like to know early, that we may be sure not to disappoint you. Should you prefer an editorial explanation that shall be done & you can find it both in form & substance as you may wish it to appear & if I differ from you, you shall hear from me. To prevent any misunderstanding among fellow laborers in a common cause, I would suggest the propriety of letting Deane see a proof of whatever may print, that he may know what to expect & as a reciprocation of the courtesy which I have no doubt he will shew towards you.

If you see M^r Adams your book publisher, please say that I did not answer his last letter because I found my son had the date before written to explain the blunder that occurred in repeatedly sending the Journal, which I regretted, as also my appearance of abruptness towards M^r A_ at the Hotel in a moment of embarrassment with conflicting demands on that moment of time.