When I went South, your father very kindly consented to transact certain business left unfinished by me in New York.

Letters received on my arrival at Savannah, advised me of the state of the business, and I wrote to your father, in what way to arrange it for me; by the next mail other letters came, showing me different aspect of affairs and rendering a change of plan very desirable.

It was to explain this fully to your father, that I came on.

But as it is too late, I do not wish him even to know, for the present, that a change was contemplated.

I fear it might lessen, for a time, his confidence in my judgment--something I do not fear when he knows me better.