A-41-3
Wheeling April 14th 1816 Virginia
Respected Friend
I have this morning recd your
Letter of the 6 ult desiring a Draft on James Duncan
for the amount of your claims on Jacob Temlors-
on order on [illegible] for the sum which if you insist
on you will use; but if you feel that anxiety for
my prosperity which you express you will suspen
-d the claim untill the middle of September
pay
next when I will^ it; & when I hope I can pay it
without the distress which its payment now will
inevitably occasion me - Yours Respectfully
Thomas Rotch Nathl P. Atkinson