Writes regarding Clarissa boarding with Deming as he has several of the nieces who will attend the school at Litchfield; wishes she be provided with necessary supplies and clothes; would Deming advise her in her course of study; encloses a bill to count against a bill Deming will soon have against him.

He has received a pianoforte for Deming; will write to Birkenhead to come; reports on who will and will not attend; orders some broadcloth to be sent to a wing chair maker.

Did not go to New York as soon as he expected; ordered tea sets; instructions about payment.

Discusses construction of the Middlesex turnpike road contracted by Col. John Wadsworth and him; wishes a line from Deming on the subject.

Discusses recent elections; embargo; Congress and the President; relations with England and France.

Henry Champion (1751-1836) was a brother-in-law of Julius Deming.

Writes from camp that life is better than he expected; arrangements about his shoes and clothes; has settled his recruiting accounts with the public; sees no prospect that war will end soon; his design at present is to leave the service in April or May, though his intentions are not much suspected in camp.

Writes from Camp Reading to acknowledge receipt of parcels; at his father's request, he sends an account of the soldiers punished for desertion during his period of service in the light infantry.

Writes from camp that clothing and provisions for the troops have been received from the state store; Col. Hazen's regiment has been ordered to Springfield to guard stores; things go well for him in camp but he wishes to know what business would open to him if he quits service in May as soon as the Assembly rises; hope for a pair of shoes from home.

Papers regarding a suit brought in Monroe County New York by Aristarchus Champion against Charles Perkins, Abby Perkins, William Hungerford, William R. Cone and the Bank of the State of New York.