Sherwood Forest
Dec 27. 1850

My Dear Sir;
Upon the other page I send you two checks on the Virginia Bank at Norfolk, the one for $500. the other for $938.34/100. The checks for $500 each heretofore remitted and the mount constitute the next proceeds of the two drafts negociated in Norfolk and leave me deficient $61. 66/100 which I hope to remit in time for the 3rd February when the remaining draft falls due. Should I be disappointed in expected receipts, bear with me a little and all will be put wight as well this as the disshonored check.
We are dining with our neighbors daily through the X mas and enquiries are made everywhere concerning you. Your name is becoming quite familiar to the lips of men around about us. I think matters are looking better for the country-the quiet in Congress so far is producing strong hopes that the storm is over. Georgia has acquitted herself well and S. Carolina takes time for reflection. Our Governors recommends

tion for a convention of all the States is simply a useless measure since no new arrangement can make the Constitution plainer than it is. Should it be sanction'd by the Legislature and the other States accept it, no other benefit can result from it than a reaffirmation of what already is. I confess however my fears of conventions to amend the Constitution. There may be Hotspeers found in the proposd convention on both sides who might produce sad results. My hope is that a good [?] of all the people will furnish the salve for all our wounds.
Do glance at Corwin's report. He takes my four years into the comparison with Mr. Polks and the present admon. Shows my annual expenditures at 21,000,000. Polks at $2,5,000,000 and this at 2,7,000,000 acknowledges, that I reduced the expences of the govt near $14,000,000 in the 4 years but omits (I suppose it was out of the direct line of his report) to state that I left a surplus in the Treasury of $8,000,000. He does me an act of justice earlier than I expected.

is to have been enclosd.
All well.
Affly & truly Yrs

John Tyler