Notes that Albert Gallatin and family have been "with us" about four weeks. On politics: "I wish you would let me know how your election will go — sad times in your State I think. As you know I am half a Fed. though John Randolph told me I came of too good a stock for me to ever turn Federalist — but I think that in quarreling with each other the Demos are all in the wrong, and thus far I am opposed to them —"