Sherwood Forest
Feb. 19. 1850

My Dear Sir;

My thanks are due to you for
the several evidences of continued regard with 
which you have furnished me during the winter, in
your speeches and documents from Harris-
burg. Be assured that I shall never fail to read
all that comes from yourself with true plea-
sure, being convinced from my past association
with you, that whatever you may utter in
debate will always proceed from mature
conviction or honest impulse. It was the
saying of some one, I forget at the moment
who, that language was given us "to conceal
our thoughts" but the sentiment is truly worthy
of a base intriguant whose whole game is one of
deception. You have adopted the opposite rule, and
have the boldness to advocate truth of its own sake
and to do it in language too plain to admit
of misconstruction. For myself I am no lon
ger in any way connected with the busy world, but
devote all my energies to the improvement
of my lands which although originally of good qua
lity had by a course of injudicious husbandry 
continuing for 200 years, been worn down to

a condition of barrenness, and I already have the
happiness to see a fresher and a brighter smile
enlivening the landscape. My youth or the recol
lection of it is in the mean time restored to me
in the birth since I left Washington of two of the
finest boys in creation and now a girl who engrosses
the care of its mother and has the heart of the Household
your perceive therefore that I have been no idle drone
since I parted with politics and the politicians.
Looking out from the shade of my retreat upon
the great world I am by no means unaffected
by passing scenes, and when I see the distraction
consequent upon the game of ambitious and
unprincipled Demagogues, I cannot avoid
wishing on their heads, the curses of offended
heaven. Hoping however that there is enough
of sound wisdom and patriotism in the
country to baffle all evil designs, I go back
with unabated vigor to my daily pursuits
and shake off all disagreeable forebodings. Will
you not have it in your power at some
time or other to pass through my gate-way.
With assurances of constant regard
I am Dr. Sir
Yrs Truly 
John Tyler

Hon J. M. Porter

Feb 19 John Tyler
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acknowledging receipts of documents

"Charles City Court House" VA