I wrote to you a day or two ago, requesting you, to act for me in the valuation of my store-house and lot in Columbia, which I had contracted to sell to Mr J. M. Hughes of Nashville.1 In that letter I neglected to request you, as I intended to have done, to hire out my man Elias from the 1st of January, say to the middle of March next. I will leave here about the 6th March and will want his services on my arrival at home, which will not probably be, before the middle or 20th of March. Mr Thomas informs me that he is hired out until the 1st of January. Your attention to this will oblige me.