I have just received your kind letter of the 25th Instant, and thank you, for the invitation you give to Mrs Polk and myself to visit you, on our return to Tennessee, after the close of my Presidential term. It is our present purpose to take the Southern route, which though longer than that across the mountains, is for the convenience of travel with a heavy baggage, to be preferred. I had not contemplated making any stop at Richmond, but if the arrangements of the public conveyances, in which we will be, shall allow the time, it will give us pleasure to pay our respects to your family at your house. With kind regards to Mrs. Patton : . . . .