I received yours by Mr. Olcott, and I assure you that it gave me as much pleasre as if you had been a whole day in writing to me. Instead of being a letter not "fit to be read" it was read over two or three times immediately after its receipt, & several times afterwards. I hope you will often give me letters of the same kind. I have been so constantly engaged for these two days that I have hardly had time to think of you, much less to attempt an answer to your last. And to day business has been so pressing that I have been obliged to abandon the idea of writing you till Thursday or friday. I have just been called on to prepare the proceedings of the Electoral College, and must do it to night. It will take till late. So that I must bid you an affectionate good night. My Dear Harriet believe that I love you with all my heart, that you are the only object of its attachment & that you shall always always retain it, though I am not able to say more than farewell.