http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130255564738 We already have a transcript of this letter on the website, but it is now up on eBay. If you are family, and want this heirloom, now is your chance. (disclaimer, I have no connection with the seller, except he may be a distant cousin) Jeff -- Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG "In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter cannot exist without them." -- Joseph Story (Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833) Reference: Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 191.