Wythe to St. George Tucker, 10 October 1784

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Mr. Tucker
    Matoax
George Wythe Oct. 10th, 1784

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[Oct. 10, 1784]
    By the specimens you have given, I discover that I shall be no much a gainer, several ways, by a correspondence between us, that a continuance of it can not but be desirable to me. Call not then my dear Sir, the address [?] you make to me by the appellation of redress. Much less believe, that what you are pleased to suppose intrusians are tiresome and disagreeable to me.
    Your [?] adversions upon commerce I received; and cannot requit myself altogether of my attitude, by neglecting to acknowledge before, the pleasure I felt in perusing them. ingratitude, I say, because you do me the honour to think my approbation of your [?] some kind of gratification. I should not have delayed this return, the only one I could make, from which you could secure advantage, so long, but that it is now but a few days since I have been relieved from an [?] in the neck of which

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Afflicted me sorely many weeks.
    A reform in the administration of justice in the county court is undoubtedly requisite; but of quarterly sessions of [?] courts, or district courts, with [?] salaries to the judges as may incline them to be [?], the scheme you propose, or the establishment of circuit courts, which will be the more eligible remedy, I am at present unable to form an opinion. When I shall have the pleasure to see you in Richmond, if any thing on this subject worth imparting to you in the mean time occurs to me, I will communicate it. I am, unfeignedly,
                             Dear Sir,
                                  Your obedient Servant
                                       G. Wythe
10 Oct. 1784.