Monticello Jan. 17. 10 Dear Sir It is long since I have had occasion to write to you. your favor of the 12th. now furnishes it. The [insert] annual remittance to my friend Kosciuzko shall never wait a moment for my quote of it. accordingly I now inclose [sic] you a letter to [illegible] Gibson & Jefferson who will thereupon pay the sum you shall call for. it's precise amount I cannot fix to well as you an, you know what would have been the necessary delay in charging the form of his stock, & you know also the delay was occasion by my getting that this certificates were among my papers. This last I should [illegible] to pay, and therefore I must pray you to settle the matter between us. should you receive anything from mr. Beckley, as you intimate, after taking out of it the balance I owe yourself, the residue, if in him may go to [illegible] the draught on G & L. My present life is of action altogether & without doors. I have but one hour before breakfast for all my pen & ink work. this leaves me in long [illegible] with the numerous correspondencies which I have not yet been able to withdraw from. from breakfast I am occupied in my farms & other establishments. I have 450. acres in wheat this year, all in excellent land & the next year I shall be able to raise it to 600. acres, & to increase my tobacco crop from 40. to 60 M in a couple of years more I shall be able to clear out all the difficulties I brought on myself in Washington (11,000. D.) from an inability to follow your good counsel. This once accomplished, I shall be in a state of perfect ease & tranquility. I hope your health continues firm, and that you will live to enjoy many years of it. I shall write to Gen. Kosciuzko, & explain to him the urgency which occasioned the charge in the situation of his funds, and I shall commit my letter to the President, to go with the public dispatches. ever affectionately yours Mr. Barnes. Th: Jefferson