Four letters to Mary Pierce. Discusses financial matters, including problems with the bank, a relevant bill in Congress, and his new employment with Bank of America; a cruise on a privateering ship; and a declaration of war between England and France. In another letter, he copies extracts from his journal, with a reference to the activity of diary-keeping by schoolgirls at the Litchfield Female Academy, and mentions the scarcity of coffee due to a blockade.